Re: Security Response Team / EOL

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On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 13:43 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Maybe, but in a project based on voluntary work from packagers,
> putting
> constraint on them is likely to decrease their reactivness, and in
> turn 
> it will harm the users. Otherwise said, if the "no updates" policy has
> for consequence "Backporting is too much work, I won't bother for
> that 
> EOL FE branch, let the security SIG do the backport if they want to",
> it 
> is not a win for the user in my opinion. 

Policy doesn't say you can't use a version upgrade to resolve a security
issue, as long as that is the motivation of the version upgrade.
Package updates/upgrades just for the sake of the update/upgrade is what
should be avoided.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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