Re: [suse-security] Problem with last Hylafax update (notify script)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 02:08:21AM +0000, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> >The Friday 2006-01-27 at 22:00 -0000, Hubertus A. Haniel wrote:
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> >>I have filed it in the Novell Bugzilla but I have not to much faith that  
> >>they
> >>will accept the bug unless somebody reproduces this on the 10.0/10.1 
> >>distros.
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> >It is a bug introduced by the last security update, therefore, it is the 
> >responsibility of SuSE folks to undo it. I forwarded it to 
> >"security at suse.de", but so far, not even an acknowledgment.
> 
> I completely agree with your statement but unfortunatly I had different 
> experiences with Novell (not SuSE) recently where it was difficult to 
> get something fixed on a older platform especially if it is a component 
> which is not part of SLES if it was not a security issue.

Yes, we usually do not fix bugs for older SUSE Linux versions that 
are not critical.

The hylafax issue will be fixed however.

ciao, Marcus

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