Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 12:48:26PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> That's talking about something different - it's saying that by keeping
> more current with upstream releases we would be able to avoid security
> problems which only occur in older versions.  That's another way of
> putting the frequently made criticism that we really ought to do stable
> releases more often.

I think it's saying we should allow bug-fixes into stable.  Allowing
only clear security fixes sounds like a good idea, but it's too
error-prone, especially for a language like C.

Andrew