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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 00:05:02 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...til.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thousands of vulnerabilities, almost no CVEs:
OSS-Fuzz
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.
Exactly, other examples where Debian ships upstream stable branches
when updating a stable/oldstable release (via security.debian.org or
point releases) out of the top of my head are:
- ffmpeg
- Firefox ESR
- Linux (follows upstream LTS branches)
- MariaDB
- Mediawiki
- OpenJDK
- OpenSSL
- PHP
- Thunderbird ESR
- VLC
- Wireshark
- Xen
It has served us very well overall and it's considered on a case-by-case
basis; e.g. whether upstream releases in those long term branches are
sufficiently vetted/regression-tested.
Cheers,
Moritz
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