Security updates

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:20:34AM -0800, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 01:40:37PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > I see Alex has uploaded version 1.5.0.9 of icedove. What should we take
> > as a course of action for xulrunner, iceweasel and iceape ?
> > Should we go with newer upstreams (note there's no official xulrunner
> > release, but I fake them taking from tags in upstream cvs) or backport
> > security fixes ?
> 
> > If the latter, alex, do you have a patch set for this ?
> 
> Um, this is completely without context for me.  Is there something the
> release team is being asked to comment on?
> 
> I don't care about version numbers of things you upload to unstable for
> etch, I only care about what shows up in a debdiff.  I think that policy is
> spelled out pretty clearly, or do you have questions about it?

To make it very clear : do you prefer security updates or new upstreams
(security updates + version change + minor functional changes) ?

Mike