Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:28:34 -0500 as excerpted:
> (having all updates installed on Ubuntu doesn't really count in this > case, they're pretty bad sometimes about not properly tracking upstream > development[)] No kidding. I'm involved with an upstream that had a security patch and version-bump a number of years ago. An Ubuntu bug was filed... and it sat in the bug queue IIRC untouched until it was obsoleted by newer releases, where the new version /was/ included. At least Fedora (which I remember a poster confirming the update on) and Gentoo (which I run, personally filed a bug with, and saw the security bump) made the version bump available as an update. Apparently, as it wasn't a headline component (one would /hope/ they at least get security updates out for /them/, and they evidently do for at least some as they do publish security updates, but at this point I'd wonder how consistently they do for others), Ubuntu simply didn't care. Made /me/ glad I wasn't on Ubuntu, that's for sure! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
