Security update process without CVEs

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Jan 23 22:51:51 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 14:32 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:26:19 -0500
> Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > A few hours ago I submitted requests to push perl-MARC-XML directly to
> > stable (by filling out the "fedpkg update" request with type=security
> > and request=stable)
> 
> You cannot push any update directly to stable. 
> 
> Security updates have to go though the same process as any other
> update. 

This seems like a good point to ask, actually: what the hell does that
field actually *mean*? I just toss a coin to fill it in, usually.
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