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Fedora\\\\\\ Ubuntu and long term support

Fedora\\\\\\ Ubuntu and long term support

Posted Oct 19, 2008 22:16 UTC (Sun) by ceplm (guest, #41334)
In reply to: Fedora\\\\\\ Ubuntu and long term support by maney
Parent article: Fedora and long term support

One small terminology reach to other distro culture (having been in past member of both, I hope I can at least work towards more understanding). There are two quite different meanings of the word "backport". In Debian world it means porting of packages from unstable to be used on stable with old libraries, etc. In the Fedora/Red Hat world it means (if I am not mistaken) is to patching old version of the package to fix for bugs fixed in the later package which is not part of the concerned release of the distribution (i.e., stuff Debian and Red Hat maintainers do for Debian/stable and RHEL respectively).


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