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At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote:
  
>Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the
>salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, 

The same way they're being paid for their work on other
releases? ;-)

>Eh?  If the important part is the security fixes, why not just
>install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes?

That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough
that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to 
produce a release containing other code that's been backported 
from 5.x and 6.x.

--Brett Glass