From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 16 15:15:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23747 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23717 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 15:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA01489; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:17:46 +0300 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:17:45 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Steven G. Kargl" cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , dave@kachina.jetcafe.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sup-ing stable In-Reply-To: <199608162131.OAA08745@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > I 've lost track of the attributions. > > >> > >>> It's still the ``STABLE'' branch, but PAST the 2.1.5 release tag... > >>> ``STABLE'' == the cvs RELENG_2_1_0 tag, so I don't want to here the > >>> cvs tag confustion again please... > >> > >> Are people still patching this tree? I thought you guys wanted to > >> freeze this code. > > > > Yes, I am still patching this tree, and if the FreeBSD project kills the > > tree I will be setting up my own area to maintain this realease. With > > several 100 customers dependant upon being able to run this and have > > bugs fixed it would be too important to me to have support for it totally > > dropped. If I have to go to a ``patchkit'' to do it, I will. > > > > FreeBSD Org does send patches to CERT for security related problems. > Supping the -stable branch to acquire these patches is preferable over > a possible manual patching from the CERT announcement. > > The -stable branch should be a maintenance branch. No new features. > No new drivers. Just fixes. But it is as that on the moment! Sander > > $0.02 > > -- > Steve >