[SECURITY] cygwin32-expat, mingw64-$arch-expat, etc.

[Warren Young]

On Mar 16, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-03-16 14:28, Warren Young wrote:
>> expat 2.1.1 fixes MEDIUM-rated CVE-2015-1283.  I’ve uploaded the regular
>> expat 2.1.1 packages, but the cross-development packages maintained by
>> Yaakov are all at 2.1.0.  Some appear to have 2.1.1 alternate versions available
> 
> mingw64-*-expat were updated to 2.1.1 a few days ago already.

Might I ask how you even learned that a newer version was available?  The expat project doesn’t have mailing lists any more.  I was contacted by one of the upstream maintainers, which seems a bit back-channel to me.

I assume that someone who maintains so many packages has a better way to keep on top of which packages need to be updated.