Re: Should the policy documents better reflect real package maintenance practice?

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Hi Gordon,

On Monday, 2022-11-28 08:21:31 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> On 2022-11-28 07:36, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > >   I would much prefer to see Thunderbird updated early in
> > > Rawhide and releases that are not yet final, but to remain on the older
> > > stable version for as long as possible on any Fedora release that had
> > > included it.
> > That'd be a problem though because ~every Thunderbird x.y.0 release
> > includes security fixes, which are not backported to older then
> > unmaintained ESR releases by Mozilla.
> 
> I don't understand... When I said that I'd prefer to see Fedora remain on
> the older stable version "for as long as possible", I meant "for as long as
> Mozilla continues publishing security fixes for that release", which should
> be at least 12 weeks after a new stable release series (x.y.0) starts.

Maybe I misunderstood. So you're agreeing that once Thunderbird does not
support the N-1 ESR anymore then rebasing to N is wanted on release
branches?

  Eike

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