Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:10:04PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> Hello.
>
> As it is being currently discussed on debian-security [1], security team
> has hard times supporting mozilla family of packages, because of
> unfriendly upstream policy - they don't want to isolate security fixes
> from a large changesets of new upstream releases. And given the huge size
> of the package, isolating security patches at Debian level also fails.
>
> So options seem to be:
>
[snip]
It's a shame the Stable Release Manager and arbiter of the current policy
hasn't participated in this discussion.
regards
Andrew
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