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2008.09.03 18:02 "Re: Some security fixes from RHEL", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Lee Howard wrote: > If Debian and others will refuse to distribute it in their stable (read: > "stale") releases then that is their decision, and they're welcome to patch > away at a previous release. Meanwhile, I think that we have an obligation to > the rest of the libtiff-using community to cut code releases as development > occurs. Debian is pretty important since it seems that 46 other Linux distributions (including the super-popular Ubuntu) depend on it for their packages, and there are non-Linux distributions depending on it as well. See "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions". It may be that some distributions are based on "experimental", "testing", or "unstable" versions of Debian which are more likely to pick up changes. >From recent experience, I am finding that minor API/ABI changes will surely delay broad use of a release by 6 to 12 months or more whereas otherwise it could appear in just a week. Debian should be viewed like as "canary" (as used by miners) for package releases. If we can make Debian (and Gentoo, Fedora, FreeBSD) happy by reshuffling a few lines of code, then we should do so. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/