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Date:      Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:19:16 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r325739 - in head: lib/libcasper/services lib/libcasper/services/cap_syslog share/mk
Message-ID:  <20180305171916.GA2359@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180305161358.GA704@raichu>
References:  <201711120834.vAC8YQUq006611@repo.freebsd.org> <20180305161358.GA704@raichu>

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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:13:58AM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote:
> The growing divergence with stable/11 makes it rather painful to
> maintain a port, depending on libcasper, that aims to work on both 11
> and head.

Even an MFC won't help you, in the medium-term.

e.g. via https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup, even if the MFC made it
into 11.2, you would still have several months of supporting the old
one.  (The FreeBSD package builds are based on the oldest supported
point release from a branch.)  The current estimate for 11.2 is late June.

mcl



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