Gaim Security Upgrade 1.0.2

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:51:25PM -0400, volvoguy wrote:

> Of course about the time this started, Gaim would give a message at
> startup that there was a new version available, and now Ubuntu is two
> versions behind. For most things this wouldn't matter, but when
> functionality breaks (like MSN changing protocol or someone uncovers a
> new exploit), I would assume that an upgrade would be appropriate. The
> security related issues fixed in the newest version can be found here:
> 
> http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/
> 
> All three are related to MSN. I'm not sure if that means anything though. 

Yes, there are some bugs here which need fixing.  We're investigating.

> So consider this a question and a request. Is this the kind of thing
> we'll see upgraded between major Ubuntu versions? If not, could it be?
> :-)

Yes, it'll be upgraded between releases...in the development branch. :-)

In stable releases, we'll patch the security problems only.

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 - mdz