Re: including EOL and vulnerable software in Fedora

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On Monday, 10 October 2016 at 11:07, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 10/07/2016 06:43 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> > I was made aware that EOL software with known security bugs that will
> > not be fixed upstream (due to EOL status) was reviewed and accepted into
> > Fedora recently.
> 
> Fedora relies on EOLed components pretty much across the system (including
> critical security functionality), so one more such package really isn't the
> end of the world.  I think new packages should not be held to tremendously
> higher standards than existing packages.

I think times have changed enough to warrant this at least for new
packages. I don't think it's acceptable to simply allow adding
known-to-be-vulnerable software to our package repositories without
additional review anymore.

Regards,
Dominik
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