On Thursday, February 28, 2013 05:49:46 PM Martin Pitt wrote: > Marc Deslauriers [2013-02-28 11:29 -0500]: > > The security team does support the development release. When we push > > updates for the stable release, our policy is to either sync, merge or > > fix the packages in the dev release also. > > That has been my impression as well. I would think that often this > should be the easiest case, as often it just means a sync or even > autosync. > > > We will also be pushing urgent security updates to monthly snapshot users. > > So if the "last monthly" is supposed to actually be a kind of a > release, instead of just a blessed daily installation image, this > would mean that there would be a new series each month? > > I would expect users to upgrade to the latest packages of the RR each > time update-notifier pops up, regardless of which medium they used to > install. After a month this needs to happen anyway, so why not right > away?
I'm probably in the minority, but I actually read the USNs and consider when to apply them. As an example, when I'm traveling and only have my laptop available, I only apply updates that are important for security reasons that are relevant to my situation. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
