--000000000000ce862005d77eb2ff Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" You'll need to take this up with the maintainers of Discover and KNewStuff. There's no reason why fixing the issue wouldn't resolve the problem as fast as removing it. Jonathan On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 06:53, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:12 AM Jonathan Riddell 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 wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:52 AM Jonathan Riddell 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 I've now withdrawn these tarballs as they contain code that performs a 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 >>> >> --000000000000ce862005d77eb2ff Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
You'll need to take this up with the maintainers = of Discover and KNewStuff.=C2=A0 There's no reason why fixing the issue= wouldn't resolve the problem as fast as removing it.
Jonathan


On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 06:53, Ben C= ooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> = wrote:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:12 AM Jonathan Riddell &= lt;jr@jriddell.org= > wrote:
I'm not going to publish u= pdates that just remove an important feature.=C2=A0 Rather there needs to b= e discussion in the normal KDE method and that feature should be fixed.

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

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


Jonat= han

Regards,
Ben
=C2=A0


On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 18:46, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org>= ; wrote:
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:52 AM Jonathan Riddell = <jr@jriddell.org> wrote:



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