Re: On Mozilla-* updates
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:39:21PM -0500, David Ehle wrote:
> The solution to this problem is simple. We change the meaning of stable
> to "stable except for such cases as security demands upgrading versions
> rather than backporting patches."
>
> We can dilly dally about it all we want but this is really the only viable
> solution. Leaving bad packages around is not an option. Taking mozilla or
> other core parts of most users computing experience is not really an
> option (unless we want to put ourselves even farther out on the fringe).
> So upgrading broken packages is our last option. It may be unpalatable to
> some, and perhaps more work, but according to this discussion it will
> still be less work then trying to backport the security patches alone.
Did you realize before this rant that this is already the policy, and has
been documented in the Security Team FAQ for several years now?
> We are making a mountain out of a mole hill. If help is needed to do
> this, email me off list and I will try and help. I have servers that can
> be used to build at least two of the architectures.
We already have hardware to build packages; that's not a problem at this
time.
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- mdz
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