On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:10:19PM -0300, Tiago Assumpcao wrote:
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> All I ask for is to receive the "There are updates available." message as 
> soon as one security problem is reported, understood and treated by your 
> development part. And that is, the sooner possible, if you please.

Do we not already do this today?  I know I do this as soon as possible
for any reported problem for the -stable tree, as soon as the fix is in
Linus's tree.

See the 2.6.25.11 release for an example of this.

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> Plus, if one bothers, to be able to know the exact location of this bug and 
> its characteristics.

That's the extra work that you are saying we also need to do.  Linus and
others have already detailed why we don't do that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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