Re: A question about patches distribution

On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 00:17 +0200, Didier Spaier via slackware wrote:
> 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

Slightly related, but a nice reminder, there are RSS feeds available of
the updates to these ChangeLogs.
https://mirrors.slackware.com/feeds/
and the Security Fixes are annotated as such.

vb



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