Pushing updates for Fedora 7
Mamoru Tasaka
mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sun Jun 3 14:25:16 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote, at 06/03/2007 10:46 PM +9:00:
> On Sunday 03 June 2007 07:12:48 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> Security updates go straight to Stable already.
>> They shouldn't. They should undergo an automated procedure to assure
>> they fit cleanly into the existing installations and don't break package
>> deps.
>
> This is not always practical. Should a firefox remote exploit fix be held up
> because a fringe package that builds against FF and is used by say 5 people
> hasn't been rebuilt yet? Should every use suffer? I seriously hope not.
Well, while I feel now that I can hardly catch up with this
long thread, I leave one comment for this.
While I surely understand that we should take security updates
very important, please keep in mind that I hear on Fedora BBS
(in Japan) about the strong complaint about dependency break more and
more times than the delay of security related updates.
Regards,
Mamoru
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