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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 16:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Martin Jangowski <bsd@birdland.rhein-neckar.de>
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Subject: Re: Is there a perceived need for a 2.1.8 release?
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On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Martin Jangowski wrote:

> 
> 
> > The -stable branch seems to be ticking along still, something which I
> > think is *good* since many customers of 2.1.7 still need a place to go
> > for the critical bug fixes and -stable is a fine place to get them
> > from, but I'm wondering if Yet Another Release along that branch (and
> > I'm going to wise up and stop referring to anything on this branch as
> > "the last release" :-) would be merited.
> > 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, given that proviso, what do those who are still running 2.1.x
> > think of this?
> > 
> 
> 
> Of course! As master over 11 heavily loaded machines, all running 2.1.7.1
> very successfully, I can't see myself changing them all to 2.2.x. I think
> that 2.1.7.1 is going to stay for a long time, so I'd appreciate the idea
> of fixing security bugs in the 2.1.x-line very much.
> 
> Martin
> 
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> 
> 

  That's not the point.  Fixes will put committed to 2.1-stable as long as
developers work on it.  The point is whether this should be converted into
releases once in a while.  Considering the downtime a re-install causes, I
would guess that nearly everyone would much rather keep 2.1.x systems up
to date via cvsup.

Tom