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Mark Felder wrote:
>> Another option is a second openssl port, one that overwrites base and
>> guarantees compatibility with RELEASE.  Then we could at least have all
>> versions of openssl in vuln.xml (not that that's been a reliable
>> indicator of security of late).
>>
>
> This will never work. You can't guarantee compatibility with RELEASE and
> upgrade it too.

How do you figure?  RedHat does exactly that with every backport, and
they do it for the life of a release.

Roger