What is the update policy for The Fedora Legacy Project?
In general, we will provide security updates and critical bug fixes for select versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core releases. No new features or packages will be introduced except where they are required for future management of our updates and agreed upon by a consensus. While updates are created primarily for security fixes, sometimes non-security bug fix updates may be allowed if consensus agrees that there is a serious enough need. In most cases, fixes are back-ported to the current package version rather than upgrading the package to a newer version. This is done in order to limit the possible side-effects which can result from an upgrade. Packages are only upgraded to a newer version if consensus dictates that we should do so for some specific reason. Refer to Red Hat’s backport policy for a detailed explanation of a similar guideline, In order to publish security updates in a timely manner, security updates have a higher priority than any other updates. Within the class of
