Re: Purge obsolete security updates?

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 01:08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> ... currently has security patch information going back to 2004.  I'd
>> like to cut everything which only applies through version 8.0 as
>> obsolete.  This would mean cutting all notices starting with
>> CVE-2006-0678.
>
>> Further, I'd like to make a general policy that we cut security
>> information from this page a year after the last referenced version goes
>> EOL (e.g. we'd delete CVE-2006-5542 this November).
>
> -1 on both.  The fact that we're not releasing new updates for old
> versions is miles away from suppressing information about them.
> Furthermore, having those notices up there might help to spur people to
> update off those versions, which is what we really want.  If we remove
> all the old notices it is likely to leave the impression "hey, 7.4 is
> much more bug-free than the newer versions, so I should stay on it".
>
> If anything, I'd like to see us *add* the older versions to the newer
> notices when relevant.  We want people to realize that these holes exist
> and are unfixed in old branches, not think they're secure.

Agreed. However, moving them to a separate page and put a prominent
note saying "security advisories for no-longer supported releases are
archived here" or something like that seems like a reasonable
compromise.

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