lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de writes:
> Zitat von Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>:
>> But you're not running the least buggy version of the 7.4 branch. The
>> 7.4 branch is up to 7.4.9. If you are runing 7.4.2 then you haven't
>> installed all the updates supplied by Suse for their distribution (or
>> Suse backports bug fixes from 7.4.9 to 7.4.2, which I kinda doubt) which
>> means you likely haven't upgraded ANY of the packages that came with it,
>> which means your system, if it is put on the internet, will likely be
>> hacked within days, if not hours.
> SuSE always only do backports of fixes and never increase the version
> number. They only appended a self made "build" number which increases.
> So it is really possible that all the fixes are in while the version
> stays the same.
Considering that we only put bug fixes into stable branches, SuSE is not
doing anyone any favors by applying such a policy (if indeed that's what
they are doing). They're just making more work for themselves, as well
as making it harder for users to tell what's fixed or not fixed.
regards, tom lane