Security Response Team / EOL

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 11:54 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:

> 
> Ok, here's the source of our problem.  You've assumed that security
> fixes have to be backported.  Nowhere is this / should this be said.
> I'm perfectly fine with doing package UPgrades to fix a security issue.
> I just don't want to see upgrades just for the sake of upgrades.
> Upgrades should happen only to resolve a security issue.
> 

I agree with that.
No new packages in EOL releases - if the user wants that shiny new
package w/o upgrading, they are free to get the src.rpm and rebuild it.

Version updates should only fix security issues.