On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 17:42 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > I think we're arguing on the same side. We all want to look forward > with our packaging. And freezing upgrades on legacy releases will only > make packagers spend more time with old stuff (backporting security > fixes) that will then be missed with ongoing stuff. Even in the ideal > situation of 2 current and 2 legacy releases you end up maintaining 3 > versions of a package. And right now we are still far from 2 legacy > releases (we're at 5). Ok, here's the source of our problem. You've assumed that security fixes have to be backported. Nowhere is this / should this be said. I'm perfectly fine with doing package UPgrades to fix a security issue. I just don't want to see upgrades just for the sake of upgrades. Upgrades should happen only to resolve a security issue. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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