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Potentially security-relevant issues should also be reported on Savannah#50

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Potentially security-relevant issues should also be reported on Savannah#50
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Clarify that potentially security-relevant issues should be reported on Savannah just like any other bug.
This change is motivated by a recent private email exchange where it was unclear for the reporter how they should proceed.
As agreed during the last online developer meeting, we probably won't need a separate channel for potentially security-relevant issues. Octave can execute arbitrary code by design anyway.

Clarify that potentially security-relevant issues should be reported on
Savannah just like any other bug.
This change is motivated by a recent private email exchange where it was
unclear for the reporter how they should proceed.
As agreed during the last online developer meeting, we probably won't need a
separate channel for potentially security-relevant issues. Octave can execute
arbitrary code by design anyway.
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Thank you @mmuetzel will update octave.org now.

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