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Re: SL 6 vs. other RHEL clones: security advisory comparison
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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:23:33 +0100
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On 08/20/2012 11:14 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> difficulties. Working copies built on SL 5.x machines were no longer
> compatible with Subversion on production 4.x hosts, and still arenīt.
> 

oh, I agree - look at the more recent sudo issue for example.

but the attitude of leave-it-hanging-around long enough so that someone
else finds and fix's the bugs is a very shallow and false sense of
stability, within the constraints of this ecosystem.

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