Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 17:33:41 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Adam Kubicki <mikee@solozzo.tele.pw.edu.pl>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is -stable not secure? Message-ID: <199612170133.RAA21872@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 96 15:05:32 MST." <E0vZlAD-0005R6-00@rover.village.org>
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> In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.961216120718.9445A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> Marc Sl
emko writes:
> : Because no one has put them there. They can be there the second after
> : they are in -current if they are put there; that happens when the person
> : committing them feels confident enough in the patch and has the time to.
>
> Likely because no one is confortable enough making blind commits to
> the -stable branch. I've put a few deltas into the stable branch, but
> only after finding people to test them. It is much harder than it
> would appear.
>
> -stable is dead dead dead dead. (the CVS branch based on 2.1.x that
> is). If you are worried about security, running 2.2 when it is
> released may be your best bet.
When will 2.2 be out?
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