Worthless updates

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Mar 3 19:04:21 UTC 2010


Till Maas wrote:
> As far as I understood, there is no need to backport security fixes. One
> could just copy the package with the security fix with all needed
> dependencies to the stable repo imho.

I think people are going to visit me at home and do really scary things to 
me if I push a "security update" upgrading KDE from, say, 4.2.x to some 
4.4.x to the conservative update stream. ;-) At least for some packages, the 
only way to maintain the conservative stream would be backporting, otherwise 
it doesn't make sense to have a conservative stream at all.

        Kevin Kofler



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