On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > As far as I understood, there is no need to backport security fixes. One > > could just copy the package with the security fix with all needed > > dependencies to the stable repo imho. > > I think people are going to visit me at home and do really scary things to > me if I push a "security update" upgrading KDE from, say, 4.2.x to some > 4.4.x to the conservative update stream. ;-) At least for some packages, the > only way to maintain the conservative stream would be backporting, otherwise > it doesn't make sense to have a conservative stream at all. It depends on the definition of the conservative stream. I did not meant it to be RHEL-like-stable, but more like updates-spend-a-month-in-updates-without-negative-karma-stable or whatever the criterion should be. I suspect very much that it will be a top FAQ, to enable normal updates for many people, but at least this allows to gather some data. Regards Till
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