Anthony Baxter schrieb:
So I think a public statement that we will support 2.4 with security patches for a while longer (and perhaps with security patches *only*) would be a good thing - independent of the LSB, actually.
Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue, but will this do? (Wearing my release manager hat)
This would be a good statement, but I have also a set of policies in mind that clarify what a "security bugfix" is, so people know what kind of changes they get when they install a new version that only has security bugfixes. I believe this guarantee works in two ways: we should guarantee that we will accept security bugfixes, but we should also guarantee that we *only* accept security bugfixes (and perhaps critical crashers - although they overlap in the denial-of-service field). Regards, Martin