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Cc: Kouji Ito <kouji@cty-net.ne.jp>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: when 5.5
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On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with n=
ew
> > ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time?
>
> It was deliberate this time to avoid an extra ports freeze cycle,
> since that has very high cost and the benefit is really low since the
> intended audience for 5.5 is small and everyone who can do so will be
> much better off with the enormous benefits of 6.
>
> Kris
>
>
>

Ahh makes sense to me now, since port freezes are annoying.  So there
is no danger of 5.5 been released after 5.4 EOL then?

Chris