The new Update Acceptance Criteria are broken

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Nov 13 14:22:42 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> The documented issues do not seem to be as bad as a system being
> exploited. It is only about dependency breakage or services not working
> anymore. There is no major data corruption requiring access to backups
> and restoring the whole system. But this is what people using Fedora
> with proftpd and being exploited have to do.

If security updates break functionality then people will stop applying 
security updates.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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