Merge pull request #30 from dequis/distro-stuff

Clarify distro hotfix versions

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/_posts/2016-09-21-irssi-0.8.20-released.markdown b/_posts/2016-09-21-irssi-0.8.20-released.markdown
index 42b2186..699988b 100644
--- a/_posts/2016-09-21-irssi-0.8.20-released.markdown
+++ b/_posts/2016-09-21-irssi-0.8.20-released.markdown
@@ -15,14 +15,29 @@ for various Linux distributions are automatically generated by the
 [openSUSE Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/) and are
 available for download in the
 [irssi-test](https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:ailin_nemui:irssi-test;package=irssi)
-repository. Please check with your distro whether they provide
-officially updated packages.
+repository.
+
+Please check with your distro whether they provide officially updated
+packages.  This is a possibly incomplete list of distros which have
+applied the hotfix to their stable versions instead of updating to
+0.8.20:
+
+- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial): `0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2`
+  ([USN-3086-1](http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3086-1/))
+- Debian 8 (jessie): `0.8.17-1+deb8u1`
+  ([DSA 3672-1](https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00251.html))
+
+Note that the version shown by irssi internally is kept the same, but
+they are safe to use anyway. The installed version can be verified with
+`dpkg -l irssi` in ubuntu and debian.
 
 Read the [security advisory](/security/irssi_sa_2016.txt).
 
 Those who cannot upgrade right now, but with Perl support enabled in
 their Irssi, can load [this](/security/sa_patch.pl) script and add it to
-`~/.irssi/scripts/autorun` as a first aid to mitigating these issues: 
+`~/.irssi/scripts/autorun` as a first aid to mitigating these issues.
+
+----
 
 Furthermore, we are always looking for testers of the development
 version. Binaries of the current git development version are