On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:11:58PM +0100, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> Ok, sorry for being dumb :-)
> What exactly is the issue there? I don't see the issue in setting SLOT
> depending on ... uhm ... some variable. Looks kinda logical at first
> glance, but I'm not aware of the issues it causes.

One issue here is that security revbumps are no longer effective in that the
vulnerable version remains installed and must be unmerged manually by the
sysadmin. I started a discussion about this very same issue yesterday on
-web-user and we hope to resolve it shortly.

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