On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 14:40 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
Is it unthinkable to respin the images with those fixes ? Usually the patches are quite simple to backport, and we are talking about a limited set of bugs (remote root exploit on install) after all.
Unthinkable, no, but there are various practical issues with doing official re-spins which have meant it's never actually happened, and the project for doing it semi-externally - Unity - is often way behind. One that I wasn't previously aware of, which Spot explained to me recently, is U.S. export regulations; we have to go through a long and tedious regulatory process for official builds, and no-one's particularly keen to start doing that multiple times per cycle for respins.