At 06:47 AM 6/27/2003, Mark J Cox wrote: >> For those who wonder why Redhat didn't update Apache 2.0 in distro >> 8.0 and 9.0, just read : >> >> http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html > >Apache httpd was an example that I happened to remember when writing that >explanation - Apache is far from the worst offender to mix security >updates with other changes in a new release ;)
This is a good example of why Jeff Trawick and I spent many posts arguing the benefits of maintaining binary compatibility from update to update within the remaining releases of Apache 2.0 :-) Unfortunately, that doesn't help 2.0.40 deployments or earlier. Bill