On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:18:23PM -0500, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > Other distributions manage this without too much trouble, so I don't see > > it being a problem to adopt this policy. > 1 word: Resources - person power, time, funding, equipment, etc. > > Fedora is a free software distribution "staffed" informally by > volunteers (except for that minority of folks who may be paid to work > on Fedora as their day job). > > RHEL has the resources to backport. Centos uses those backpotrs for > free, but does not generate them (unless again the party supporting a > component for Centos happens to be upstream in RHEL). Debian has historically managed this. I really don't buy the argument that security or other critical fixes are generally difficult to backport. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
