On Jun 25, 2010, at 17:48 , Troy Dawson wrote: > 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.
But the policy is (or was) to provide such possibly not quite backward compatible enhancements with minor releases only. Which in particular means, after a beta phase. Not with a critical security update that ought to be rolled out a.s.a.p. IMO this firefox update is either a breach of policy, or indeed establishing a new one. It will hit our users' systems monday morning. I'm very curious what will happen then. - Stephan > 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 -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
