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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:35:21PM EST, Kevin Bringard (kevinbri) wrote:
>So and so finds an issue and goes to their vendor, who fixes it in their distro. So and so someone else finds an issue and goes to their other vendor, who fixes it in their distro. Without a common resource to pool stability/bugfixes we end up with a lot of what are effectively forks of older (but still vendor supported) "stable" code.
> 

Ah see but in this hypothetical situation, both vendors are Doing It
Wrong. Ideally they'd be fixing it in upstream, backporting it to still
supported releases in upstream, and for anyone they're selling LTS-like
support, fixing it in their distro release.

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Sean M. Collins