On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:09:17AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > I disagree. The evidence you cite does not support this conclusion. We > implemented the policies for three releases. There are significant > problems with one release. This does not justify the conclusion that the > policies should be entirely repealed. It was brought to my attention that also current Fedora releases have problems with delaying important security updates. A fix for a remote code execution vulnerability in proftpd was only pushed to stable with a seven day delay: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.3c-1.fc13 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/proftpd-1.3.3c-1.fc14 And it is not a theoretical threat, I know that servers in the nearby area have been exploited because of this vulnerability. Delaying such updates seems to be a very bad idea. Even in the unlikely case that the update was broken and made proftpd not start anymore, this is usually not as bad as having the system corrupted by an evil attacker. Regards Till
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