Re: Wireshark LTS branches

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 17, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu> wrote:

> Well, last time I brought this up the project decision was to allow
> minor improvements, too:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireshark.devel/15323
>
> The best solution for me as a maintainer at Debian would be limiting
> the changes to security fixes conforming to the policy:
> https://www.debian.org/security/faq#policy , but as a second-best
> option I could live with the special LTS branches.

The best solution for many end-users would probably be *not* to limit the changes to security fixes - if we have a fix 
for a mis-dissection, they'd probably want that, for example.

Given that, having separate "security fixes only" branches, for packagers and users who *only* want security fixes, and 
support branches, for packagers and users who also want those bug fixes that we deem "appropriate" for the support 
branches, is probably the right answer.
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