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Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes

From:  Alexandre Rebert <alexandre.rebert-AT-gmail.com>
To:  debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: Reporting 1.2K crashes
Date:  Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:04:55 -0400
Message-ID:  <CAF1AS2iV=+XNdYBKV5QBPrdsuhBTqpDeOKUD9i3irgbDTONT2w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc:  debian-devel <debian-devel-AT-lists.debian.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

> One such crash was reported on a small fluxbox tool to be manually run,
> which used $HOME blindly. When it ran, it segfaulted, which is a bug,
> yes.
>
> However, it's not security, and to see the bug tagged 'security' was
> troubling - what oversight do you have to prevent the security team to
> get flooded with such bug reports (this bug is not a security risk.)

That's a good point, and it looks like a majority of the crashes have
little security implications. The security tags will be removed before
submitting the report, unless advised otherwise by the package
maintainers.

Thanks,
Alexandre




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