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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 08:08:36 -0700
From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@...y.loosely.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thousands of vulnerabilities, almost no CVEs: OSS-Fuzz
On 2019-06-21 10:57, Simon McVittie wrote:
> If upstream projects have a stable branch that is genuinely stable
> and bugfix-only to minimize the risk of regressions, and encourage
> downstream distributions to align on the latest stable branch during
> their development phase, then I think that goes a long way towards this.
> If I understand correctly, PostgreSQL is one of the canonical examples of
> a project that does this, and gets its upstream point releases included
> in stability-focused projects like Debian as-is.
Doesn't this simply shift the work of backporting ("crazy and bound to
always fail in the end") from the distro maintainer to the upstream
stable branch maintainer? He/she is more like "midstream" working in
that role.
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