Re: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement: samba (SuSE-SA:2002:045)
Roman Drahtmueller sagte: [ announcement of fixes for samba deleted ] what about http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ps-20.11.02-001/ ?? why update with patched ooold versions when there's a official 2.2.7 for security fixes? bye, [MH]
On Nov 21, Mathias Homann <admin@eregion.de> wrote:
why update with patched ooold versions when there's a official 2.2.7 for security fixes? This has been discussed many times: SuSE can't just update packages because most of them have dependencies with others, that would have to be updated too. Also, newer versions can have different config files, different default behaviour, etc. To keep the systems as stable as possible, only the known whole is patched in the old version.
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