plasma 5.24 tars ready for packaging

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:12 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> I'm not going to publish updates that just remove an important feature.
> Rather there needs to be discussion in the normal KDE method and that
> feature should be fixed.
>

Sorry but i'm going to categorically reject in the strongest possible terms
the above statement.

What you are in essence saying is that your view is that it is acceptable
to conduct a distributed denial of service attack on someone (even if it
unintentional) and then refuse to disable the functionality in question
while the issue is investigated in full and fixed properly.
That quite simply is appalling.


> Jonathan
>

Regards,
Ben


>
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 18:46, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:52 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The tars for Plasma 5.24 are ready on deino for packaging in
>>> distributions.  Release is due next Tuesday.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> I've now withdrawn these tarballs as they contain code that performs a
>> denial of service attack on KDE.org infrastructure.
>>
>> As this affects more than just Discover (with KWin, plasma-workspace and
>> kdeplasma-addons all containing defects that are part of this series as
>> well) a full respin of all packages will be required.
>>
>> We also need patch releases of Discover for all versions going back to
>> Plasma/5.18. While I appreciate that some of these are "out of support" the
>> extraordinary nature of the problem we are facing requires it to be made
>> (much like how Microsoft released a fix for Windows XP in the wake of
>> Wannacry)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>
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