Mantis and "difficult" upgrades (Was: Fedora Extras 3)

[Dennis Gilmore]

> A quick chat with the packager of mantis (which is responsible for
> five open CVEs on FE3 and FE4) shows that updates to 1.0.3 are
> forthcoming for FE5 (which should fix CVE-2006-1577) but there is no
> clean update path for FE3 and FE4 due to schema changes.  There are
> supposedly some scripts which will do the necessary schema updates.
>
> It looks like backporting anything would be unreasonable, although I
> haven't looked closely at the source.
>
> So, a dilemma:
> 1) Push a naive update and break systems, leaving the admins to run
>    the schema updates.
Not Good  but probably fairly wise  attach to the announcement  the need
for manual admin intervention.  If  the upgrade scripts  do not work then 
the admin  should be prepared to fix  things by hand.

> 2) Run them automatically and hope they actually work.
Bad  if it could break things badly.  better to make sure that the admin 
is aware of what is needed.  Could  be ok with sufficient testing

> 3) Leave things as they are (insecure).
Not good and another reason to EOL FE3

> 4) Work in earnest to try to backport patches or come up with our own
>    fixes.
May be best bet.   though schema updates should be taken into
consideration.  If  i updated my FC3 or FC4 systems  to FC5   there should
be a proper upgrade path.
> The maintainer also suggested that we pull mantis from FE3, although
> that can't do anything for existing installations.  (He doubts there
> are any.)
Hard to say without stats from mirrors
Id  rather not pull it.  Its very hard to get the info out to everyone 
who may be intrested.  I know  that some people rebuild  my extras rebuild
on Aurora.  I guess they don't trust my builds  but  they use the SRPMS i
publish.

Dennis