Fedora Extras Development Build Report

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun May 8 16:41:47 UTC 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:15:31PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Security fixes are generally fairly minimal. The chances of them
> > introducing build failures are somewhat unlikely.
> I tend to think the same -- but sooner or later it will happen ;-)

Especially considering the policy of going to new upstream versions for
security fixes rather than applying patches -- a new version could fix the
problem *and* break some arch.

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