From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 3 15:57:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from steeltoe.niceboots.com (steeltoe.niceboots.com [208.25.85.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7342337B419 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tenebrae@localhost) by steeltoe.niceboots.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g33Nvou48187; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tenebrae@niceboots.com) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:57:50 -0800 (PST) From: Tenebrae Reply-To: tenebrae_BSD@niceboots.com To: Erik Trulsson Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes In-Reply-To: <20020403230921.GA70696@student.uu.se> Message-ID: <20020403154840.W47537-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:35:55PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:31:20PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > Far more sweeping changes have been made to -stable in the past. > > > > Of course. But this particular change is gratuitous. Do not merge it > > to -STABLE, please. Instead, wait for 4.6. What's the hurry? > > To me it sounds like a much better idea to MFC it now than just before > a release. If it is merged now then there is plenty of time to find > and fix any problems that might pop up. Right before a release is not > the time to do that. That's exactly what I was thinking, and I'm a perpetual newbie. Heads-up is being posted to the stable mailing list, /usr/src/UPDATING is being modified, and it gets to be tested before being sprung upon -RELEASE. It seems responsible to me. -Tenebrae. --- The sending of any unsolicited email advertising messages to this domain may result in the imposition of civil liability against you in accordance with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code Section 17538.45. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message