Backporting policy

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:00:23PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> I think we should also consider upgrading in cases where all of the 
> following conditions are met:
> 1) Absolutely zero cases where API changes would effect any distribution 
> OR 3rd party software, because the updated package is a leaf node on the 
> dependency tree.  I suspect screen may be another leaf node.
> 2) Where having a common %{version} across multiple distributions would 
> make it easier to maintain security updates, because patches need not be 
> ported and tested multiple times.
> 3) Only by consensus of the list membership.

Sounds good to me.