Re: [xml] Release of libvirt-2.9.3

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 02:17:38PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Daniel and all,

  Heya,

> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:17:56 +0800
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
>
> >   This is a security release, I didn't tried to push a number of other
> > patches considering urgency.
> >
> >   That release is dedicated to the memory of Bill Brack who was my
> > co-maintainer for many years on libxml2 and libxslt, we became friends,
> > he has a huge influence still on way I do things. Unfortunately he passed
> > away last February. I'm sure he would have commented that celebrating
> > his legacy with a release with so many CVE would be a tribute to his
> > programming skills, because he always approached life with a sense of
> > humor. RIP Bill, the code still lives but OpenSource is more about
> > people than code !
>
> RIP Bill! Sorry to hear about his death. And I enjoyed reading this paragraph
> dedicated to his memory.
>
> ========
>
> That put aside:
>
> 1. The Subject line says "libvirt" instead of "libxml2".

  I'm doing upstream releases for libvirt every month, Pavlov in action,
sorry about that, yes it's definitely a libxml2-2.9.3 release

> 2. I have packaged and submitted libxml2-2.9.3 for Mageia Linux Cauldron. So it
> should appear in its repositories soon. Seems like all of our downstream
> patches were no longer necessary.

  Ack, thanks to all downstream packagers to push that down to users !

Daniel

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