fix request

[Christian Schneemann]

On Friday August 14 2009 10:27:52 am Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> On 13. aug.. 2009, at 22.00, Holger Weiß wrote:
> > * Badri Pillai <badri at diglinks.com> [2009-08-13 15:00]:
> >> BUT a security bug, which is not only  affecting Nagios
> >>   but the whole system it is running on,
> >>   needs special attention and should be fixed asap
> >>
> >> ON all versions of Nagios provides for download (as patch)
> >
> > Support for old release branches is what your Unix or Linux
> > distribution
> > vendor should provide, not necessarily the upstream developers.
>
> That is bullshit. Why won't you add that fix to the 3.[01].x? Is it
> really that much work?
Sorry. but I can't understand you!
It is not much work, but why should they do it? Just because someone could 
still use this version? It's the normal way to concentrate on the current 
release and the next release.

>
> Seems to me the only reason not to do so, is to force people to use
> 3.2.x instead of the old versions.
As Holger said, support for old relaeses you get normally from your 
distributor.
>
> I can understand quite well that someone chose to fork out
> Icinga........
Do you think they will do fixes for old releases? Who will you blame if they 
don't do it?

Greetings,
 Christian

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