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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r252608 - in head: include lib/libc/stdlib
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Andrey Chernov wrote:

> >> We already pass that moment in the past, changing old&bad formula with
> >> new one which cause the same effect: non-repeating sequence in the very
> >> global scope. We already agree that repeating depends on something like
> >> OS release numbers. I can't find that discussion right now.
> > 
> > But you are changing it in between releases.
> 
> Development and stable branches are not official releases.

sorry for nitpicking: ther is quite large difference between 
official/unofficial status and users/vendors expectations regarding 
interface/APIs stability.

development (aka -current or head/) is not, while stable 
(aka stable/*/) are, ate least they are great subject to POLA.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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