PR followups in the freebsd-security list [WAS: ports/129037: [patch] [vuxml] graphics/imlib2: fix CVE-2008-5187]

Eygene Ryabinkin rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Mon Nov 24 23:08:24 PST 2008


William, everyone, good day.

Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:05:26PM +0100, William Palfreman wrote:
> 2008/11/24  <stas at freebsd.org>:
> > Synopsis: [patch] [vuxml] graphics/imlib2: fix CVE-2008-5187
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> > State-Changed-By: stas
> > State-Changed-When: Mon Nov 24 17:50:36 UTC 2008
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > Committed, with minor changes. Thanks!
> 
> I can see no need for this on the Freebsd-security mailinglist.  It
> amounts to spam.

Sorry for this.  I used to put freebsd-security@ to the X-GNATS-Notify
field of the PR, so followups were slipping to this list.

Since the very last Sunday (or Saturday, don't remember well ;)), I am
putting freebsd-security at freebsd.org to the CC field of the original PR.
Thus, only initial posting will go into the list.  I hope that such
approach will be better for the list and its subscribers.  If this still
won't be a satisfying decision, I can completely drop freebsd-security@
from the PR recipients, but in this case I could miss some important
feedback from the community and I want to avoid this, if it will be
possible.

Once again, sorry for the noise.  Old PR's will still produce some
amount of follow-ups, but the new ones shouldn't do it anymore.

While I am here: thanks for the appreciation of my work that was
expressed by the people in the list ;))

Thanks for your patience!
-- 
Eygene
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