On 05.12.2007 11:30, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:18:19PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Sure it's dangerous and problematic -- but it's IMHO still way better >> then to not ship a package just for hypothetical situation where a major >> update might be the only way forward if a security issues comes up. >> Besides: if we want to update for non-security reasons we can provide >> compat packages as well, which should solve parts of the problem. > Ok, but then what to do when a security issue is discovered in the > package that is also relevant for the compat package but we don't want > to backport it? Simply remove the compat package from the repo?
If there was a warning period or something like that, round about: yes. Note that even RHEL does that iirc. Didn't they for example switch from mozilla to seamonkey? Cu knurd _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
