reviving Fedora Legacy

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:33:17AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >
> >The aim here is not to present the _appearance_ of a distro with
> >security updates but give the choice to the user either to upgrade or to
> >stick with a distro where some packages will not be maintained.
> >Something along "That distro is EOL. Upgrade before you get hacked.
> >Alternatively, and at your own risk, you can enable a repository where 
> >some packages are updated on a volunteer basis, but some packages aren't
> >maintained anymore."
> >
> >With a page listing which packages are still supported.
> 
> The issue you will have is that people will not be comfortable opening the
> ACLs for things like the kernel or glibc or gcc.  And if those ACLs are still
> closed and the maintainers have no interest in participating in this "life
> after EOL" scheme, then it's very hard to have any appearance of security.

You mean, even for branches they don't maintain anymore? That would be
strange.

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Pat