Simon Butcher wrote:
Thanks Troy and Connie for the heads-up, and all the testing.
Is this a new policy by T.U.V. to perform major version upgrades to fix
a major security problem instead of backporting security fixes into the
old version? It only seems to be recent behaviour (openoffice, firefox).
simon
This is a good question, and it depends on what you mean by "new"
policy. This is a policy that they started a couple of years ago (2 or
3 years), but it isn't for all packages, only for a small set.
When they originally said it, they listed firefox, openoffice, and I
*believe* evolution. They said they were going to update them to the
latest release about once a year. It turns out that it's actually
taking them two years.
Here is how often they have done major updates for each of these
SL4
Firefox 1.0 -> 1.5 : Aug. 2006
Firefox 1.5 -> 3.0 : Sep. 2008
Firefox 3.0 -> 3.6 : Jun. 2010
SL5
Firefox 1.5 -> 3.0 : Jul. 2008
Firefox 3.0 -> 3.6 : Jun. 2010
openoffice 2.0 -> 2.3 : Jun. 2008
openoffice 2.3 -> 3.1 : Jun. 2010
Troy
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