From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32651 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2004 06:35:33 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 9 Aug 2004 06:35:33 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bu3kq-0004aR-EW for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 06:35:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 162 invoked by uid 89); 9 Aug 2004 06:35:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12497 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2004 06:35:31 +0000 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:34:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040809063416.GA13690@kroah.com> References: <20040808185144.GB29077@mail.lieber.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040808185144.GB29077@mail.lieber.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again) X-Archives-Salt: 570c5d40-0d24-4131-ba29-1c84b35a55dd X-Archives-Hash: f1319649851edf6db7c4b0c1f6fd0f0b On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:51:44PM +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > Third, many folks want long-term support of these releases. I *don't* > think this is viable and am not willing to personally sponsor this. A core > component of this GLEP is that we will *not* be backporting security fixes. So what would happen for security fixes? Rely on the latest release from upstream to be used instead? This can cause real problems, as a lot of SATA users just found out with the most recent Fedora kernel update due to the security fix. They went with the most recent kernel, which happened to rename their disk drives. What is the downside of just backporting the security fixes to the versions marked "stable" (becides developer time)? I really think this is something most people who want a "stable" tree will want to have (if for no other reason than that's how all the other Linux distros do it, and it will take less effort trying to explain why we don't...) thanks, greg k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list