From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Jun 4 14:18:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7699BB69DED for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:18:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 16EA21A8F for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liminal.local (liminal.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3636:3bff:fed4:b0d6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2206B10081 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 14:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/2206B10081; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral Subject: Re: old ports/packages To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.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> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> <9D785F08-AB0B-4324-B1B3-286D90AF9BF7@lastsummer.de> <20160603172313.3b2353b0@raksha.tavi.co.uk> From: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <2d6eddea-0de7-6963-c1ca-a734aaa5a75a@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 15:18:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RNcpdXWm47Hmdhn1HoEj8Tc9vp51TTqtG" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.1 at smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:18:35 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --RNcpdXWm47Hmdhn1HoEj8Tc9vp51TTqtG Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="t97Tjei93OxkLL1E2d8IfHrMeGbvvLxGm" From: Matthew Seaman 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> <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> <574ED144.1050603@quip.cz> <9D785F08-AB0B-4324-B1B3-286D90AF9BF7@lastsummer.de> <20160603172313.3b2353b0@raksha.tavi.co.uk> In-Reply-To: --t97Tjei93OxkLL1E2d8IfHrMeGbvvLxGm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --t97Tjei93OxkLL1E2d8IfHrMeGbvvLxGm-- --RNcpdXWm47Hmdhn1HoEj8Tc9vp51TTqtG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJXUuMuXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATm1UP/jT4ytjXOHmOFvx/tj3y4V3J eqUW59FllxsLmr55I+Db2PZ3S9CJ6EKUkW7hHRpIxiYSZrOqmDAcsmMB9rJKlRAG OjZWSBXmYGgnWMlcFV1tqIDy7kisT0TosW/OjK+LTS012EMU+xflh9TNjhFeuP9+ /kjGIJfCtVB8udQGhg3wrChq5yDq7m+mDIYlMGgsKc54g2bP+zg98GR7LPb7KqT3 CPd2Oz2rd5B52KVk18nQAT9etRWKS5+4QyrvtPyf4xNrY7JElbOZllAn1To10Aup +QYbnIArMboF10GCut9/zXaEJx8HOUmgs+1WCQX8xfe0ie3I7YHLGMQvqJPu7Lz7 PE5cFiWDP09hS+V4au0nNH73Eju36AgSsvCTsJl1Zujc07xzmXZgJKvI73D+z0J2 95JwvS+oAn0aSEdEG+0YfBPRgD7RFSDQiFDU9z/1x3ZivpbTkdWkThnKypl0l5hf N2zC6h4gFZHHMcSTogeyTiZwbhc524WPMUJTWj17hm8JxVRHKvkIAtdPzeI5XFh9 8myZmPyj09rR8VWd5iejBA7yBFvHeqgkx0fO7n0SBYRuKfLaqyjaXZe9FKPl6dLR T3tQeg9oDG9XjdDTEAowV9llSTVQuL0nrHTegzfgY2buSp3mLly1Bk2e+zhXaDQi G9JY00ggYLDU4I/KGtgG =/cKF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RNcpdXWm47Hmdhn1HoEj8Tc9vp51TTqtG--