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Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 23:43:06 UTC 2011


On 08/25/2011 04:56 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> If Firefox were following the update policy, they'd backport the security 
> fixes, not push the new versions.

That is just not true

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Security_fixes

"If upstream does not provide security fixes for a particular release,
and if backporting the fix would be impractical, then a package may be
rebased onto a version that upstream supports. The definition of
practicality is left to the judgement of FESCO and the packager. "

Rahul


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