Im using an ancient version from the dawn of time and somethings broken. Can you backport fixes for free?
Variants of this one get asked a lot. The purpose of the BusyBox mailing list is to develop and improve BusyBox, and we’re happy to respond to our users’ needs. But if you’re coming to the list for free tech support we’re going to ask you to upgrade to a current version before we try to diagnose your problem. If you’re building BusyBox 0.50 with uClibc 0.9.19 and gcc 1.27 there’s a fairly large chance that whatever problem you’re seeing has already been fixed. To get that fix, all you have to do is upgrade to a newer version. If you don’t at least _try_ that, you’re wasting our time. The volunteers are happy to fix any bugs you point out in the current versions because doing so helps everybody and makes the project better. We want to make the current version work for you. But diagnosing, debugging, and backporting fixes to old versions isn’t something we do for free, because it doesn’t help anybody but you. The cost of volunteer tech support is using a reasonably current version of the
