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