Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-14 Thread Mika Tiainen
On 14 Jul 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: severity 490688 wishlist thanks On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:25:30PM +0300, Mika Tiainen wrote: Package: gnus Version: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3 Severity: serious This package should be orphaned, currently it has a two year old version of the gnus development

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:09:12PM +0300, Mika Tiainen wrote: - You don't mention any other technical problems with the package that make it unsuitable for release, just that it's old. Well not just that it is old, but that it is a old alpha release not recommended for casual users:

Possible gnus security bug (#415562) (was: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny))

2008-07-14 Thread Mika Tiainen
On 14 Jul 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:09:12PM +0300, Mika Tiainen wrote: Looking at the bug reports there's mention of a possible security problem in http://bugs.debian.org/415562. Someone should atleast look into that, I think it might refer to this:

Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Mika Tiainen
Package: gnus Version: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3 Severity: serious This package should be orphaned, currently it has a two year old version of the gnus development series (No Gnus). If the package goes to lenny it should atleast have the latest No Gnus version. I have not had any problems with No Gnus,

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Mika Tiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gnus Version: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg-3 Severity: serious This package should be orphaned, currently it has a two year old version of the gnus development series (No Gnus). If the package goes to lenny it should atleast have the latest No Gnus

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Mika Tiainen
On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Mika Tiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have not had any problems with No Gnus, but they are still declared alpha versions, and maybe should be completely kept out of stable. Both emacs and xemacs have the latest stable Gnus already included. This

Re: Bug#490688: gnus: Old alpha version shouldn't be included in lenny

2008-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Mika Tiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 13 Jul 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: This package is useful for emacs21 users, as it's considerably newer than what was included in emacs21. I agree that it's not useful for emacs22 users (and indeed isn't installable if you only have emacs22 installed)