Fwd: ImageMagick - [Fedora Update] [comment] xine-lib-1.1.20.1-3.fc17, emacs-24.0.94-3.fc17, calibre-0.8.42-1.fc17, perl-GD-SecurityImage-1.71-3.fc17, techne-0.2.1-4.fc17, gdl-0.9.2-5.fc17, autotrace-0.31.1-29.fc17.1, ImageMagick-6.7.5.6-3.fc17

[Kevin Kofler]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> I'd lean towards this, why do we need to push a soname bump of ImageMagick
> so late in the game when f17 is already in beta? If there's a critical bug
> in the f17 package, isn't it possible to backport the fix instead of
> forcing these rebuilds?

Even if it were possible to backport the current round of security fixes, 
those would become more and more in the ~14 months from now to Fedora 17's 
end of life, and backporting would become more and more impractical.

        Kevin Kofler