Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Handling of embargoed security issues -- security@korg vs. linux-distros@

Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15T22:17:39Z

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, Greg KH wrote:

> Why are they not just doing what the huge majority of Linux users doing
> and taking the "feed of known issues that resolve problems before they
> are public knowledge" that we provide today for free to them? Because
> they somehow think that knowing a specific single bugfix is more special
> than all of those other bugfixes, which honestly, is just loony.

If you'd like me to turn this proposal into "What can we do to make sure
that most major distros are eventually basing their kernels on -stable"
discussion, I'd be happy to do that, but I believe this has been discussed
quite extensively already.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs