On 25/06/10 10:57, Simon Butcher wrote: > Thanks Troy and Connie for the heads-up, and all the testing. > > Is this a new policy by T.U.V. to perform major version upgrades to fix > a major security problem instead of backporting security fixes into the > old version? It only seems to be recent behaviour (openoffice, firefox). > > simon
They discussed this on the RHEL5 list, basically TUV haven't changed the policy they just had no choice since firefox has stopped providing fixes for older versions like 3.0. I reckon Firefox and openoffice are moving too quickly for years of backporting fixes to be practical. Tim
