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Re: LTS meeting summary and notes



Hi

When the code base is similar for unstable and older releases this is a good approach. However when the code-base difference grows this approach becomes more and more problematic since the correction may be quite different in older code-base.
This means that it may be a good practice in certain cases, but not a general rule.

// Ola

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 20:37, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:58:34AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
>   There has been a suggestion recently that all fixes should go through
>   unstable first. The claimed benefit is that this reduces the chance of
>   a regression.

which I think is pretty important for security updates in general and
the more important the older the supported suite is. in oldoldoldstable
I really dont want to see experiments.

also, given there are more fixup-DLAs than fixup-DSAs I think it's prudent
to reduce the risk for regressions for DLAs.

>   In the discussion, it became clear that there is a
>   significant cost to this approach: substantial delays to LTS/ELTS
>   updates.

quality work costs time.


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