REVIEW/RFC: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Kevin/Updates_Policy_Draft

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Sep 22 15:04:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 17:01:02 +0200,
  Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> I say that the example of Webkit should be removed because if it is not
> possible to backport the security patch and due to the version update
> Midori has to be updated to a new version regardless of the changes of
> user experience. The part of the example "judgement call based on how
> intrusive the changes are" does not make any sense. We just cannot keep
> the old insecure version regardless on how intrusive the changes are.

Security isn't binary. It may be that a security update addresses an issue
that can not happen in normal cases. It might be reasonable to just document
the cases where there is a problem so as to warn people not to do that.


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