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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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

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