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Date:      Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:36:53 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Discussing ideas or wish list
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 10:34, Mark Felder wrote:
> After the EoL of FreeBSD 8 (estimated June 30, 2015) the old package
> tools are scheduled to be removed from FreeBSD. This change will be
> MFC'd back to 9-STABLE and the release at that time (perhaps
> 9.4-RELEASE?) will not have the old pkg_* tools. This seems a bit odd to
> happen in the middle of a series because of POLA, but we can't support
> the old package tools forever and FreeBSD 9.1-9.3 will have given you
> plenty of opportunity to migrate to the new package format and ease the
> upgrade to FreeBSD 10.x.
> 

Note this isn't set in stone. Watch the Roadmap on this page:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/CharterAndRoadMap



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