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From: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@gentoo.org>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: security bugs and release
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:21:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2083219.fSNdaqEArh@devil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130626135403.GJ2924@reaktio.net>

On Wednesday 26 June 2013 16:54:03 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> I think what he meant is why not release a new version with only security
> patches in it, so if the current Xen version is 4.2.2, and there's a new
> security issue being found, Xen project would release Xen 4.2.3 with *only*
> the security fix(es) added on top of 4.2.2.

Yes, more or less you centered the point. I don't know if it is correct for 
you, but if you define 4.2.1 the version with the security fixes could have 
the name like 4.2.1.x . So it is always the same with the security update

-- 
Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo Linux Developer

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-25 17:07 security bugs and release Agostino Sarubbo
2013-06-25 23:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-06-25 23:56   ` Agostino Sarubbo
2013-06-26  9:21 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 13:54   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2013-06-26 15:21     ` Agostino Sarubbo [this message]
2013-06-26 15:24   ` Agostino Sarubbo

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