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Well, if you had uptreamed your fixes against 1.2, they would be in 1.3, wouldn't they ? I find it a poor excuse for not upgrade assuming API and ABI are stable.

It's just laziness. It's easier because that way you don't have to argue with Management. But you also don't educate on the necessity of fixing security issues. Hooray for 1.4 JVM still in production for instance. And it's perfectly ok. Until some breach happens .....




Not every upstream will take your patches. Not every upstream can take your patches.


Getting my fixes into 1.3 doesn't prevent 1.3 from having regressions.




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