| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Roberto C(dot) Sánchez <roberto(at)debian(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Backport of CVE-2024-10978 fix to older pgsql versions (11, 9.6, and 9.4) |
| Date: | 2024-12-31 16:50:45 |
| Message-ID: | Z3Qg5bDU3NnYW7AW@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:50:10AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Maybe, if we were doing an only-critical-fixes LTS release series,
> > it'd be easier for downstream outfits to consume that instead of
> > cherry-picking security fixes. I'm just speculating though.
> > It's entirely possible that packagers would ignore our opinions
> > and keep on cherry-picking only security fixes, in which case
> > we'd be doing a lot of work for little return.
>
> ... if there were a PostgreSQL LTS series, Debian would probably use it.
>
> Overall, I think the current 5-year support window is good enough.
> I don't see PostgreSQL supporting 10 years, so ELTS efforts will
> always have to do some patching on their own.
Thanks, that was very helpful.
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