Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:56:27 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include string.h src/lib/libc/string Makefile.inc memchr.3 memrchr.c src/sys/sys param.h Message-ID: <20080608145627.GE35560@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20080527234335.GA24995@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <200805272004.m4RK4SZt029194@repoman.freebsd.org> <483C7FF2.6000607@FreeBSD.org> <20080527234335.GA24995@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Hi Erik, On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:43:35AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: > Compatibility in the other direction (that everything that works on 6.x+1 > will also work on 6.x), while obviously somewhat desirable, has AFAIK never > been required and certainly not guaranteed. Such compatibility has almost > certainly already been broken several times on all the -STABLE branches by > now. It has been never required, but binary packages are built on the latest -STABLE AFAIK, so not being careful about foreward compat incidentally requires users to chase -STABLE as well. This may be a problem for -RELEASE users, though this is somewhat alleviated by the fact the latters surely don't upgrade their 3rd party packages very often. every so often. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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