On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I do not think it will ever happen though because generally Red Hat is > only going to backport fixes that have been deemed critical to > security.
That's really an overgeneralization - they do that within minor release versions, but when the minor number changes, updates with less critical fixes and even new features may be included. For example RHEL 5.0 was released with a subversion 1.4.2 build, but by 5.6 it was up to 1.6.11. So it isn't really set in stone that 1.6.x will be kept into the distant future in the 6.x distribution either. But, I thought 1.4.x was kept for a painfully long time and don't know how the decision is made to bump application revision numbers. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com