Re: Purge obsolete security updates?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "w^3" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Purge obsolete security updates?
Date: 2011-01-31 23:17:45
Message-ID: AANLkTim53pwpnfgr+W_vF74LNBaC0aT9HQdjYoOTgJR9@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> WWW,
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/support/security
>
> ... 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.

Well there are two notices prior to that that apply to 8.1.

> 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).

Will the information still be archived someplace if someone needs it?

I might be more inclined to move it to a separate page than to nuke it
completely.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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