On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Peter Kjellström <cap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:22:46 -0600
> Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Red Hat's Security policy for Production 3 Phase of the Life Cycle for
>> EL5 is that they will only release "Critical impact Security
>> Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories
>> (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. Other errata
>> advisories may be delivered as appropriate."
>
> This is essentially identical to the level of support you get if you
> pay for EUS (extended update support). And I guess the thinking is that
> that is a meaningful level of support to a significant number of
> customers...
Yes, the support policy for EUS is the same. You can find RH's resoning here:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus
(scroll down to the comment section near the bottom)
> Personally I might had agreed if Important had been included but only
> Critical is too thin for many use cases.
I agree. I think the problem is that most users are unaware of the
facts. So, they assume their systems are safe security-wise as far as
they get all the updates.
Akemi
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