Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:58:26 -0600 (CST) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.4 questions... Message-ID: <199612041958.NAA21344@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199612041951.MAA11333@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 4, 96 12:51:36 pm
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> > 2.1.X is now dead unless Jordan and David (or Paul) decide to roll 'yet > another' point release. > > > Is not 2.1.6. (which is claimed to be almost -stable) supposed > > to have "stable" sendmail ? > > Yes, but since the 2.1.6 are already on CD-ROM it's really hard to > change the bits w/out using an electron microscope. *grin* > > "Stable" doesn't imply bug-free or completely-secure. *All* software > has bugs, but at some point the FreeBSD folks had to say 'this is the > end of the 2.1.X series), and 2.1.6.1 is it. > May be I am missing something, but I thought 2.1.6. was supposed to get to the -stable release, and just than die. (At least, that's how I understand Jordan's explanations on 2.1.6. release) It doesn't seem to be there yet. 2.2... doesn't have -stable version yet (does it ?) either.... THere should exist at least something which can be used without too many changes for some period of time ;-> THanks for the explanations about patches, etc. IgoR aka StR
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