[Dnsmasq-discuss] [dnsmasq] Errors found by static analysis of source code (Coverity)

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Wed Feb 6 11:02:11 GMT 2013


On 06/02/13 07:29, Tomas Hozza wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 02/05/2013 03:13 PM, Tomas Hozza wrote:
>>> I can do that and doing my best in Fedora and RHEL.
>> I had not noticed your email address until just now.  It is Fedora
>> and RHEL that I had in mind but, IIRC, there are other distributions that
>> have non-current dnsmasq.  As far as that goes, Fedora 17 had
>> dnsmasq-2.59 until I griped about it and then the updates were
>> promptly made.
> 
> I'm maintaining dnsmasq only since 2012-10-22. I can't tell how it
> was before. Maintainers also have more than one package to look after
> so we have to prioritize work to fix more serious bugs first.
> 
>> With something link dnsmasq it pays to keep as "currrent" as you can.
> 
> I agree. I noticed this during last couple of months, too.
> 

I'm open to comments about the dnsmasq release process. Would people
prefer more/less frequent releases? A different sequence to the
test->rc->release currently used. Stable and development streams?


Cheers,

Simon.





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