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From: Vince Rice <vrice@solidrocksystems.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Mercurial update needed for security fixes
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EAB0030F-A14F-4494-9E45-FD1A51EAE43C@solidrocksystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vz1efqusn0s.fsf@gmail.com>

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon 18 Sep 2017, Ken Brown wrote:
> 
>> On 9/18/2017 11:27 AM, Andy Moreton wrote:
>>> On Thu 17 Aug 2017, Andy Moreton wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ping?
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Can the mercurial maintainer please update to upstream Hg 4.3.1, to get
>>>> the fixes for CVE-2017-1000115 and CVE-2017-1000116.
>> 
>> I don't know if he reads the list.  I'm adding him to the Cc.
>> 
>> Ken
> 
> Still no response. If the maintiner does not read the project list or
> respond to email, then all of his packages are effectively abandoned.
> 
> Can we please have a *security update* for mercurial ?

And if "effectively abandoned," then there's no one to update them. Are you volunteering?
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-17  9:49 Andy Moreton
2017-09-18 15:27 ` Andy Moreton
2017-09-18 16:58   ` Ken Brown
2017-09-25 17:31     ` Andy Moreton
2017-09-25 17:35       ` Vince Rice [this message]
2017-09-26 13:24     ` Mercurial update needed for security fixes (fixed in 4.3.2-1) Jari Aalto

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