On 02/12/2014 23:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>> 5.10 is only what, six years old? Surely anyone running anything older have >> far greater issues :) >> >> (says the guy running a few slackware 13.1 boxes with 5.10.1 hehe but theyll >> join the 14 series this Christmas when I can take them offline to upgrade >> em, even -current is useing a 12 month old 5.18.1) > There is a fairly consistent streak in some distros to backport patches to > older versions rather than move the version forward. 5.8.8 is in pretty far > spread use from my knowledge. Likely in antique versions of debian and Redhat (which again will have bigger issues), there surely must come a time when the line is drawn and say - you're unsupported from this_date, give them plenty of notice, I think 12 months notice is plenty of time for planned upgrades or devise workarounds, SA is not updated all that often, so a next major release would be about 12 months away, short of a serious exploit found anyway, so there's plenty of time for lazy admins to do what they actually get paid to do :)
