Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 17:41:11 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE delayed Message-ID: <20020601154111.GB7019@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <200206011443.g51EhRb1027658@intruder.bmah.org> References: <200205311652.g4VGq5YV004136@intruder.bmah.org> <m3d6vc3vqg.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <200205312119.g4VLJm7d008902@intruder.bmah.org> <20020601113321.GC15739@merlin.emma.line.org> <200206011443.g51EhRb1027658@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Sat, 01 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Yup. I'm just wondering if a bugfix would be committed to 4.6-STABLE > > (that usually should only receive security fixes). > > I think you may be a little confused here. > > The 4-STABLE development branch (with the CVS tag RELENG_4) will take on > various names during its lifetime, including 4.6-STABLE, 4.7-PRERELEASE, > and 4.7-RC. It will eventually be the basis of 4.7. It will definitely > get the bugfix, once one is created. Please apologize for not naming it 4.6-RELEASE (which is what I meant, but did not write). > The 4.6 release/security branch (with the CVS tag RELENG_4_6) will have > version numbers of the form 4.6-RELEASE, 4.6-RELEASE-p1, 4.6-RELEASE-p2, > and so forth. It normally only gets security fixes and critical system > bugfixes. I think it's *way* too early to be thinking about applying an > ATA tagged queueing bugfix to this branch, since the bugfix in question > doesn't even exist yet. (Neither does the branch, for that matter.) Indeed, "security fixes and critical system bugfixes" is the key word I was asking for. So it's possible, if the bugfix is isolated and directed enough that it might get in. Let's hope for the best for the ATA stuff. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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