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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 13:13:34 +0100
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Censorship in php
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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2013.12.22. 11:34, "Lester Caine" <lester@lsces.co.uk> ezt =C3=ADrta:
>
> Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>>
>> I think if there would be enough interest/need of an old but security
backported
>> php fork, it would already exists.
>
>
> http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all
>
> It does ... but it needs proper support to ensure that the important
security issues do get addressed in PHP5.3 and 5.2 ...

So it doesn't?
As I mentioned some distros offer longer support cycle for their packages,
but some of those numbers are from hosts which doesn't upgrade at
all(running on EOLed distro releases), and there isn't much we can do about
that except that we try to offer an upgrade path with the least PITA.

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