[sclug] Help! wireless with Ubuntu 8.04

[Alex Butcher]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Pete wrote:

> This thought occurred to me last night - when a major
> security issue is found in the stable release of
> Firefox, the Mozilla devs are normally quite good at
> getting a point release out within a few days. If a
> major security issue was found in 3.0b5, would they
> release a fix for it as soon as possible, or would
> they just wait until the next scheduled release
> (which, in this case, would be RC1)?

I would hope that the fix would go into the CVS/SVN/Mercurial/whatever
repository straight away, and that the Ubuntu folks would backport it to the
version they ship. If they don't, that's pretty irresponsible, IMHO.

> Pete

Best Regards,
Alex.
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