On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:18:48 +0200 Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam at nurfuerspam.de> wrote: > Loren Merritt wrote: > > Did you miss the part in the very page you linked which says the bug was > > fixed before the CERT was published, and links to the commit? > > And so it's my job to backport this commit to get it to work with > Mplayer 1.0 RC2? Note: It's MPlayer, not Mplayer. > > Or do you expect us to release a new official binary every time some bug > > gets fixed? > > No, but you could have placed the patch to > > ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches > > and you could have published some information to the homepage of > mplayer. How should Mplayer 1.0 RC2 users find out that they have to > patch and recompile if you don't tell them? If you are a normal user, you shouldn't use rc2 anyways, but svn. Otherwise you'll work with an totaly outdated version of MPlayer with tons of bugs and security issues. If you are a packager for a distribution, you should be able to extract the needed information to patch your package. Attila Kinali -- The true CS students do not need to know how to program. They learn how to abstract the process of programming to the point of making programmers obsolete. -- Jabber in #holo
