On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:08:21PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:11:32AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > All, > > William, > > > > At what point do we not care about users who have not upgraded and will > > miss this security message? > > I would say that's more up to you as the maintainer, but put something > to the affect in the mask comment. > > # This mask will be removed <whenever> > > William >
Fair enough. This question is to anyone that supports users and works on bugs. Especially the portage devs. At what point do you say to a user that their system is so old that they really need to upgrade? 2 years, 1 year, < 1 year? Maybe that's a good thing to state in documentation. "For a fully supported and "reasonably secure as possible" Gentoo system, the distribution expects users to update at least X times a year. Notice of insecure or potentially harmful packages is not guaranteed one year after official notification." Mike -- Mike Pagano Gentoo Developer - Kernel Project Gentoo Sources - Lead E-Mail : mpag...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : EEE2 601D 0763 B60F 848C 9E14 3C33 C650 B576 E4E3 Public Key : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xB576E4E3&op=index
