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
> 

This is a good question, and it depends on what you mean by "new" 
policy.  This is a policy that they started a couple of years ago (2 or 
3 years), but it isn't for all packages, only for a small set.
When they originally said it, they listed firefox, openoffice, and I 
*believe* evolution.  They said they were going to update them to the 
latest release about once a year.  It turns out that it's actually 
taking them two years.

Here is how often they have done major updates for each of these

SL4
Firefox 1.0 -> 1.5 : Aug. 2006
Firefox 1.5 -> 3.0 : Sep. 2008
Firefox 3.0 -> 3.6 : Jun. 2010

SL5
Firefox 1.5 -> 3.0 : Jul. 2008
Firefox 3.0 -> 3.6 : Jun. 2010
openoffice 2.0 -> 2.3 : Jun. 2008
openoffice 2.3 -> 3.1 : Jun. 2010

Troy
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