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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
