Fwd: New policy for orphaning/retiring packages with open security bugs

[Huzaifa Sidhpurwala]

As you folks must have noticed, this has eventually been approved by
fesco and announced. I need to work on documenting this and get RCM or
someone to implement this in some way. Any help is appreciated!



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Subject: New policy for orphaning/retiring packages with open security bugs
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 09:17:15 +0000
From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl&gt;
Reply-To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To: devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org

FESCo accepted [1] a new policy to handle packages with long-standing
known security bugs in a way similar to FTBFS bugs:

  AGREED: If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is currently open
  against a package, or a security issue of lower severity has been
  open for at least 6 months, four weeks before the branch point a
  procedure similar to long-standing FTBFS will be triggered
  immediately, with 8 weeks of weekly notifications to maintainers and
  subsequent orphaning and then subsequent removal from distribution.
  This applies to all packages, not just leaf.

This policy will apply to F30 and later. The branch point is on
2019/02/19, so somewhere around January 22 the procedure should start
with notifications being sent out. Maintainers are of course encouraged
to fix any security issues immediately. See [2] for a list of currently
open security bugs.

[1] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1935#comment-528180
[2]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASS...

Zbyszek,
on behalf of FESCo
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