Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:15:42 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Sven Koch <> | | Subject | RE: [PATCH-RFC] README 1ST - New problem logging macros (2.5.38) |
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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Randal, Phil wrote:
> You'll have to ask RedHat et al why they persist in backporting > security patches to "old" releases of Apache (etc) instead of > releasing the new versions. The effect is the same, with > vulnerabilities being squashed, but the version numbers reported > suggesting otherwise.
Because every new version gives you some new problems/incompatibilities, which must not happen in a running production-environment.
And testing every security-update 4 weeks in the lab before putting it into production would be worse.
c'ya sven
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