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Subject: Re: No Extended Support Version right now?
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On 8/9/18 9:29 AM, Gerhard Schmidt wrote:

> Updating each of them to the next Major release takes about 2h (really
> stupid things like FreeBSD id changes in config files are time consuming
> and annoying).

Are you talking about mergemaster?
Are you aware of the -F and -U options (which have been somewhat 
recently added)?

Notice: I'm not trying to convince you that upgrading so frequently is a 
good thing (as I said I agree with you); I'm just trying to ease the pain.

  bye
	av.