Re: A question about patches distribution

Didier Spaier via slackware <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:17:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

On 08/10/2018 11:54 PM, Rich Shepard via slackware wrote:
>   Most of the time I'm made aware of patches by e-mail message sent by the
> security team. However, there are also occasions (such as this morning) when
> I run slackpkg and find one or more packages available for upgrade that were
> not announced via e-mail messages. I'm curious why some are announced and
> others not.

The Slackware Security mailing lists as says its name, mentions only
updates provided as security fixes.

Some patches are provided as bug fixes but not security fixes.

I think that only the patches tagged (* Security fix *) in the ChangeLogs
like ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/ChangeLog.txt
are mentioned in the Slackware Security mailing list.

Didier

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