"And by "responsible" I mean: Every dependent security announcement of a dependent package also becomes your security announcement." Yes, and no, because as th

"And by "responsible" I mean: Every dependent security announcement of a dependent package also becomes your security announcement." Yes, and no, because as the developer you can look at the security vulnerability and decide if its actually exploitable in your application. That is assuming you can determine it, but in a lot of cases its simple. Especially in a huge library like openSSL. Say for example the only thing i'm using openSSL for is some limited functionality, say SHA256, then I probably can ignore 99.99% of the security issues because they just won't apply. I've been in this situation with an embedded platform that ships as part of the product I work on. Its pretty much got daily security updates, and yet we rarely get hit by any of them because our usage of the platform is like 1% of its functionality.