On 20 February 2013 17:07, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Connolly
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The whole point of LTS is to give you something where only *critical
> bugs*
> > and *security* fixes are applied during the life of the LTS. All other
> > changes are left for the next LTS.
>
> But if you are going to apply changes that break the system without
> documenting it  - and in fact making it harder to predict the breakage
> because the change appeared to belong to a later rev in most
> discussions, we might as well be getting the new features too....
>

Well I am not currently on the security mailing list, so I cannot comment
on that


>
> Usually the point of LTS-type releases is that the changes get some
> testing before being backported or the release is advanced to include
> them so that they are well understood and predictable.
>

My understanding is that the trigger that resulted in this hole being found
required an urgent fix.


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