Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:45:13 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: "make -C ..." causes error in net/tkabber/Makefile, line 17 Message-ID: <200402020545.QAA20586@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:29:50 -0500.
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>> No..4.8 is not maintained except for security fixes. > Even though man page & the binary will remain inconsistent w/ each > other? The point Kris is making is that the RELENG_4_8 branch represents a point in time in the development of 4-STABLE, and only critical security fixes are applied to that release. If the make document was wrong at the point in time when 4.8-RELEASE was tagged, then it will be wrong for that release for ever (unless you can convince the security officer that the doc bug is a critical security fix.....) If you think you need these sort of evolutionary improvements, then perhaps you should consider running a -STABLE version rather than a -RELEASE version. The _whole point_ of -RELEASE versions is that they don't change like this! Patches to fix 4-STABLE will be gladly accepted (if this hasn't already been fixed, which I suspect it has), but that won't change the fact that 4.8-RELEASE was wrong when it was released, and all the RELENG_4_8 versions for the rest of forever will still be wrong.
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