On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:49 PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:28:42AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > When I talked with deployments and they ask for Ubuntu, > > and I ask why, what they really want is Long Time Support. > > No deployment change their image more than once a year. > > In fact, change a image is a logistic challenge for most of > > the big/middle size deployments. > > This continues to puzzle me. LTS is a stream of security updates, and > you say the deployments do not apply them until the next year? > > And yet they want them? > > They want something they don't use? > > If a vulnerability is reported just after they make their image, the > children are exposed to the vulnerability for the rest of the year. > > It seems more likely that the meaning of LTS is not understood. > > Fedora continues with security updates for a similar time period, but > if the deployment uses our builder unchanged they won't get them. I'm > expecting that if a deployment needs LTS on Fedora they will assume > the responsibility to apply the updates when they make a build. > > All valid points. I sent a email to the deployment to ask for more information. I will report when have a reply. -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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