On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:15:32 +0000 (GMT), Mark J Cox <mjc(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Actually it's to assert that we're providing a backported
patch for a
security issue in a package. This is incredibly useful to end users,
especially those who have to respond to auditors (we get many requests
along these lines, where a customer wants to be able to show an auditor
that the old version of, say, OpenSSH, contains a fix for some particular
named issue).
I relent.
-jef