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

[Tomas Mraz]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:04 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: 
> 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.
Of course, the issue might be very minor, but in that case it is not a
"judgement call based on how intrusive thec changes are" but "judgement
call on whether the pros and cons of doing the update are significantly
in favor of pros"

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Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb