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bug#14380: 24.3; `network-stream-open-tls' fails in some imap servers on
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#14380: 24.3; `network-stream-open-tls' fails in some imap servers on w32 |
Date: |
Sun, 19 May 2013 18:32:37 +0300 |
[I removed emacs-devel.]
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Cc: 14380@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 23:17:02 -0400
>
> (CC to emacs-devel as I think this discussion is relevant there)
There's no reason: all the people who you'd like to reach read the bug
list as well.
> The big problem for me is that I don't have the time or platform
> knowledge to write a GnuTLS auto-installer and updater for those two
> problematic platforms. The GnuTLS developers don't want to provide this
> service either. Who will be responsible to it? What happens when a
> security vulnerability hits the DLLs we distribute with Emacs?
>
> My proposal would be to push out the next Emacs bundled with the latest
> GnuTLS DLLs, only support GnuTLS, provide users with instructions on
> updating them, and treat GnuTLS vulnerabilities as Emacs
> vulnerabilities. This is not ideal but IMO better than the current
> situation.
I see no problems with the current situation. Installing precompiled
GnuTLS from a zip file is a snap.
bug#14380: 24.3; `network-stream-open-tls' fails in some imap servers on w32,
Eli Zaretskii <=