Re: Fedora products, to upgrade rather than backport?

Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 15 May 2006 16:14:13 -0400

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:20 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> So in the RHL space, the choice was clear.  Backport whenever possible.
> However the Fedora landscape is different.  "Upstream" Core does not do
> backporting, they more often than not version upgrade to resolve
> security issues.  Why should Legacy be any different?  If we want to be
> transparent to end users we should follow what "upstream" does.

Every time we've decided to upgrade a package instead of backporting
security fixes, we've broken other stuff and have had to work twice as
hard to get things back into working order.

I don't think we have the resources to upgrade packages. Backporting is
a lot less work...

Marc.