Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:05:16 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: msch@snafu.de Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upcoming 4.6.1 Message-ID: <200207092205.g69M5GfP029799@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 21:55:59 %2B0200." <E17S15c-0006Kn-00@smart.eusc.inter.net>
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In message <E17S15c-0006Kn-00@smart.eusc.inter.net>, Matthias
Schuendehuette wr
ites:
> Cy Schubert wrote:
> > ... This is not a government project. :) 4.6.1 is a
> > security release. Let's stay focused.
>
> As far as I 'read the news' ;-) 4.6.1 is primarily an
> ATA-Bug-Fix-Release - Important enough IMHO.
AFAIAC, the ATA bug fix is one of the issues. The others are OpenSSH,
Apache, and the resolver bug. IMO, if we had just one issue to
resolve, a patch release would be unwarranted.
>
> Sure - the newest security fixes go into the release as well, but why
> not Matt's most recent bug fixes?
Why not include OpenSSL 0.96d, ipfw2, gcc 3.1 and while we're at it
everyone else's pet software? Where would you draw the line? IMO,
4.6.1 s/b a point patch release.
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