Planning to create a new distro of Ubuntu

[Nik Th]

04.11.2013, 13:45, "Oliver Grawert" <ogra at ubuntu.com>:
> Am Montag, den 04.11.2013, 13:19 +0200 schrieb Nik Th:
>
>>  Do you think that Linux Mint is a vulnerable system ? Really ?
>
> https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules
>
> this is the list of packages it will never update, instead of just
> integrating changes properly with the packagaes in the ubuntu archive
> they instead suppress doing (security) updates at all for them.
>
> i would say forcefully keeping a vulnerable kernel browser or xorg in
> place instead of allowing the provided security updates to be installer
> makes it a vulnerable system, yes
>
> i personally wouldn't do online banking with it ;)
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
> ,
> --

Thank you for clarifying this. Do you know the reason ? Why they don't update those packages ? 

I'm don't watch the conversation from the beginning , but I assume (in your distro) you will keep the original repositories and official packages , correct ? 
I'm not a developer, thus I cannot help you with coding, but if you decide to release this distro of yours, I would like to participate as a tester. 
Drop a note in this list or my e-mail when you are ready. 

Good Luck.