On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:04 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 17:01:02 +0200,
Tomas Mraz <tmraz(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I say that the example of Webkit should be removed because if it is not
> possible to backport the security patch and due to the version update
> Midori has to be updated to a new version regardless of the changes of
> user experience. The part of the example "judgement call based on how
> intrusive the changes are" does not make any sense. We just cannot keep
> the old insecure version regardless on how intrusive the changes are.
Security isn't binary. It may be that a security update addresses an issue
that can not happen in normal cases. It might be reasonable to just document
the cases where there is a problem so as to warn people not to do that.
Of course,
the issue might be very minor, but in that case it is not a
"judgement call based on how intrusive thec changes are" but "judgement
call on whether the pros and cons of doing the update are significantly
in favor of pros"
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Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb