Re: pkg-vulnerabilities, vulnerable packages, Opera 9.23, README.htmls

[Adrian Portelli <adrianp%stindustries.net@localhost>]

Dennis den Brok wrote:
> To sum it up in a single mail:
> 
...
>  * What I'm wondering about: Firefox 2.0.0.6 has this long-standing
> remote-information-exposure issue which prevents it from being built
> without ALLOW_VULNERABLE=yes; yet, there's a binary package available
> from a directory different from packages/vulnerable, and the
> corresponding README.html doesn't mention any vulnerabilities at all. I
> reckon this is to not confuse new users with such a popular package
> being not instantly available, but I haven't found anything about a
> change of policy regarding that matter; ISTR that earlier, Firefox was
> being treated differently?
...
> 
> TIA for anything.
> 

I'll look into this.  What version of the pkg_install tools are you
running ?

thanks,

adrian.