Hi Marc,

thanks for the note. Yes, I will add a short package description
next time to DLAs if it helps to make an update-decision.

Best regards

Anton


Am Sa., 2. Okt. 2021 um 14:34 Uhr schrieb Marc SCHAEFER <
schae...@alphanet.ch>:

> On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 01:45:33PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> > Package        : plib
> > Version        : 1.8.5-7+deb9u1
> > CVE ID         : CVE-2021-38714
> >
> > One security issue has been discovered in plib.
>
> Yes, what is the purpose of this library?  This helps planning upgrades.
>
> Other advisories always give a short summary of what the software does.
>
> Actually, I think this is against libplib1, which seems to be:
>
>  Provides a Joystick interface, a simple GUI built on top of OpenGL,
>  some standard geometry functions, a sound library and a simple scene
>  graph API built on top of OpenGL.
>
> Oh, great, this probably does not run on my servers, so no need to plan
> anything.
>
> Thank you for updating DLAs, like DSAs are doing, to add a short summary
> of the
> purpose of the package, and give the correct package name so that it can be
> quickly found.
>
>

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