[Fedora-packaging] critical path security update policy

Björn Persson Bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Sat Apr 18 19:49:15 UTC 2015


Jerry Bratton wrote:
> I'm concerned about how long it takes security updates to make it to
> users under Fedora's current policies (which generally allow such
> updates the possibility of sitting in testing for 14 days, or even
> longer).
>
> Just one example is the Firefox 37.0.1 update for Fedora 20:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-5723/firefox-37.0.1-1.fc20 

Looking at your example I see that the requirement of karma >= 2 was
fulfilled a week ago. That it's still in testing is not because of
policy.

Björn Persson
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