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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Randal, Phil" <prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk>
Cc: "Linux-Kernel (E-mail)" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH-RFC] README 1ST - New problem logging macros (2.5.38)
Date: 26 Sep 2002 16:43:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033055000.11848.43.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EBC45FCABFC95428EBFC3A51B368C9501AF48@jessica.herefordshire.gov.uk>

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 15:04, Randal, Phil wrote:
> That's a moot point.
> 
> 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

Simple enough answer. Because thats what our customers want generally.
They want fixes, they do not want updates that may break things in new
ways or require they change third party modules


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-26 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24 14:04 [PATCH-RFC] README 1ST - New problem logging macros (2.5.38) Randal, Phil
2002-09-24 14:15 ` Sven Koch
2002-09-26 15:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-24  4:56 Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24  4:49 Larry Kessler
2002-09-24 12:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-09-24 13:59   ` Gerhard Mack
2002-09-24 22:38     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-24  1:55 Larry Kessler
2002-09-24  2:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24  5:55   ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24  6:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24  6:58       ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-24  5:15 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24  5:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-26 18:56   ` Larry Kessler
2002-09-26 19:38     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:01       ` Larry Kessler
2002-09-26 18:41         ` Rob Landley
2002-09-24  5:58 ` Greg KH
2002-09-24 16:32   ` Patrick Mochel

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