From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 15:00:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80CF1065685; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABBA8FC1B; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CEB3F637A; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:00:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (tataz.chchile.org [82.233.239.98]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4233F6381; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:00:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (unknown [192.168.1.25]) by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0EC9B497; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:56:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obiwan.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 04FAD4089; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:56:27 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Erik Trulsson Message-ID: <20080608145627.GE35560@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200805272004.m4RK4SZt029194@repoman.freebsd.org> <483C7FF2.6000607@FreeBSD.org> <20080527234335.GA24995@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080527234335.GA24995@owl.midgard.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) 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 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:00:17 -0000 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 >