From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 23:28:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4798F14F50 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:28:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA30930; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:28:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA50689; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:29:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199910140629.AAA50689@harmony.village.org> To: Brett Taylor Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? Cc: Michael Lucas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:32:41 EDT." References: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:29:47 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In message Brett Taylor writes: : At this point, the longer you wait to switch to 3.*, the more and more : you'll find yourself losing that game of Russian roulette. Official : support for the 2.2 ports tree is gone - we TRY to make things compile on : 2.2.* but I don't even have a machine anymore at 2.2.* and there are ports : that are known not to work on 2.2 (gtk and glib are notorious, : particularly due to the libtool port). The Security officer is no longer even mentioning 2.2.x patches, even when available, in security advisories. It is too old and none of the security team has access to 2.2.x systems to do even minimal testing. Warner Losh FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBOAV4Wtxynu/2qPVhAQFxqwQAowlIXN61au5HMW/VcbncYhYDLJLBOsrr 7zfVzTZG2/fy7h7QcmqrgyfthH8zVhIjwCJOUO+TjrkBe+xX7W17/bemIVBRqEUJ S2oZXwgVGOTaGiIy0+25dkIvOsLmt7sHVoog5p0DlDEGR8nFzRQQ83Ahc6VueFiJ tBJ+D7cxN5s= =JmFh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message