Security updates for Firefox 4 in F-15

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:08:31 +0200
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Felix Miata wrote:
> > FF5 is the security update to FF4.0.1, which incorporates an
> > upstream versioning policy change.
> 
> The funny thing is that Firefox is going exactly the opposite way of
> us with their update policies, and that as a result, that Firefox
> security update is not compliant with our update policies (but got
> pushed anyway because Firefox can do whatever it wants around here)…

Can you point to specific changes that are not compliant with the
policy?

If there were we would be in a similar boat to KDE. Ie, a upstream
who's support and release cycles don't match ours, so we need to grant
an exception (as we have done for KDE in the past) in order to have
security updates/upstream support. 

kevin


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