On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 02:12:33PM +1000, Registration Account wrote:
> After some time, I have being to realise that online updates to Open
> Suse products are normally preceded by advise from Novell US re security
> issues (Thats if you subscribe them).

That would be us, the SUSE Security Team. ;) We are working out of
the german office.

> Does anyone understand the procedure and outcome of fixed bug reports.
> It seems that almost none of the fixes ever translate into online
> updates except if the bug is lodged against  a RC that is blocker or
> critical.

Critical bugfixes are usually pushed out via Online Update.

> ALL online updates seems to originate from Novell US in response to as I
> said security issues or Open Office or a Thirds party like Mozilla.

> There are approx 1000 open bugs reported in Open Suse 10.2 and when they
> are closed as fixed - the fix seems never to be released by On-line
> Updates from Suse.DE.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if bugs are fixed are the patches released (non
> security) (non Blocker or Critical) by SUSE.DE. I recall the monumental
> bug with Evolution and KDE in 10.2 and recall that the QA who closed and
> fixed? the issue "had to apply for a swamp ID and it took its time
> getting out.

If you have a bug number, I could check.

> You will also recall a major online update to 10.2 Open Office - This
> update was not applied to 10.1 update items. I do understand product
> life cycles, however I  think in the fine print it only applies to Open
> versions which are again security dependant updates are only issues.

We only fixed the security issues for 10.2. For 10.1 we however upgraded
to OOo 2.0.4.

Ciao, MArcus
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