Re:Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems
by taeric on Monday September 01, 2014 @11:46AM
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Sadly, this is only true if they are affected by the bugfixes. And, honestly, most users need to be taught to avoid upgrades that include massive feature creep that actually has the potential to pose security and stability problems.
Users do indeed care about getting bugfixes and new features in a timely manner.
I'm not sure if this is the solution to that problem, but it would be good to have a way to make pushing packages downstream easier - decoupling the configuration/integration, testing and security code review steps.
This is a problem that the distros themselves need to fix, though, not Poettering.