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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Proposal for backport process and policy</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 26 09:20:42 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 07:56:36, blind Pete a écrit :
><i> on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:34
</I>><i> in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.devel
</I>><i> Samuel Verschelde wrote:
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</I>><i> [snip]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > *** Old backports ***
</I>><i> > Remove old backports when newer ones are submitted
</I>><i> > - otherwise we let people use old bugged or plagged with security issues
</I>><i> > packages, when they don't necessarily know that there are problems with
</I>><i> > them - simpler choice : users have to choose between the version in
</I>><i> > updates and the one in backports, not more
</I>><i> > - less space on mirrors (fear wesnoth and vegastrike multiple backports
</I>><i> > !)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Thank you for reading.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Best regards,
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Samuel Verschelde
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</I>><i> It is theoretically possible that there could be multiple versions with
</I>><i> bug fixes and feature enhancements with no known security problems in any
</I>><i> of them. FireFox appears to be almost going down that path. I think
</I>><i> that FF 5 is just FF 4.0.3 with a silly name - please correct me if I am
</I>><i> wrong - and 5 should obsolete 4. But I can imagine several versions
</I>><i> existing during the life of a LTS release.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The deletion criteria should be, "there is a vulnerability that that is
</I>><i> not going to be fixed". That is usually, but not always the same as,
</I>><i> "there is a new version".
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Are you going to check every existing backport for vulnerabilities so that we
can choose which versions to delete ? If not, I don't think this is realistic
to support 5 versions of the same package at the same time. Let's go with the
simpler approach.
Best regards
Samuel Verschelde
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