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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Making Fedora secure - Package exit policy for security
From:       Rex Dieter <rdieter () math ! unl ! edu>
Date:       2018-07-31 15:03:16
Message-ID: pjptji$ls5$1 () blaine ! gmane ! org
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Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was asked to bring this issue[1] to the developer community before
> FESCO makes a decision.
> 
> In several instances[2] there exists packages in Fedora, in which
> package-maintainers did not patch security issues, for multiple reasons
> including 1. non-responsive maintainer 2. issue hard to patch 3. no one
> cares?
> 
> This is a risk for the distribution, our users and community as a whole
> and not to mentioned bad PR :)
> 
> I would like to propose the following:
> 
> 
> 1. If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is open against a package
> in Fedora-X and by the time X is EOL and the issue is not addressed,
> proactively remove the package from X+1
> 2. If a MODERATE or LOW security issue is open against a package in
> Fedora -X and by the time X+! is EOL, the issue is not addressed, remove
> it from X+2

I don't think this is practical, we'll lose half the distro (are at least 
large chunks).

Initially, such a proposal may be possible if generally limited to leaf 
packages.

-- Rex
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