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Date:      Sat, 4 Jun 2016 15:18:15 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old ports/packages
Message-ID:  <2d6eddea-0de7-6963-c1ca-a734aaa5a75a@FreeBSD.org>
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References:  <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <B32DD056A6281C191CD35AA2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <c528a76d-5b94-01a3-f27e-7d174faf544e@freebsd.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> <3dfd6fea-da32-b922-65d1-f64b8e113112@toco-domains.de> <6e340f95-6d10-4991-0cd6-95d336e2f044@gjunka.com> <3e55c7d8-801c-a2b3-e92e-9945e896142b@toco-domains.de> <5809f808-8b16-93ed-5351-828a7d68eb2b@unsane.co.uk> <c71c19de-f712-6116-cdb3-10580054ab23@toco-domains.de> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> <9D785F08-AB0B-4324-B1B3-286D90AF9BF7@lastsummer.de> <20160603172313.3b2353b0@raksha.tavi.co.uk> <daf63beb-5450-3055-17f7-b706b343e42d@FreeBSD.org> <de42dfb6-3b51-a02a-a370-7a626b1ac3fa@gjunka.com>

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From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <2d6eddea-0de7-6963-c1ca-a734aaa5a75a@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: old ports/packages
References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org>
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On 04/06/2016 14:50, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
>=20
> On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a=

>>> longer support cycle.
>> Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release.  With t=
he
>> new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term
>> support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be
>> supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out=
=2E
>> The last release in that series will then have a long support life so
>> that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*].  The
>> transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something=

>> you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new
>> patch-level today.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
>> [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of
>> previous major branches has been up to now.
>>
>=20
> Is there somewhere any more information available about this change?
>=20

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624=
=2Ehtml

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3D8991960

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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