From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27077 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2008 01:09:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 27066 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Aug 2008 01:09:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-72-74-94-108.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (72.74.94.108) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:09:23 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 2738D2C7AE0; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:09:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:09:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HEADSUP: Security updates outstanding Message-ID: <20080818010921.GA28585@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <48A8C9B4.7010905@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48A8C9B4.7010905@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00137.txt.bz2 On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:00:36PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >Before packagers start focusing on 1.7, it appears that we still have a >number of security updates required for the 1.5 tree: I hate to suggest another mailing list but I wonder if we should have another unarchived, closed list for discussing security issues. The recent setup.exe problem got me thinking that we might need something like this. I'm not suggesting that this email was inappropriate since these are all known issues but maybe another mailing list might help focus on important security issues. Or should we just use this list and not worry about it? cgf