Gutsy Feedback

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 5 17:25:46 UTC 2007


NoOp wrote:

> On 10/05/2007 05:41 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> As near as I can tell, there _aren't_ any security fixes for this bug in
>> 2.2.  How can Ubuntu package them if oo doesn't create them?
> 
> The OOo security fix is to upgrade to 2.3.

That's what I saw - I don't think Ubuntu (or Debian) policy deals with that
sort of thing.  If, otoh, Debian backported the fix to 2.2, I would expect
Ubuntu to pick it up.

>> I agree with you except for one thing: this isn't the place to report
>> errors
>> in Gutsy.  It might get noted, but it is at least as likely to be missed,
>> as one assumes this far into October the developers are pretty busy
>> dealing with what's actually reported in Launchpad.
> 
> Agreed :-)

otoh, letting off a little steam is _not_ beneath me :-)
-- 
derek





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