From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 10 1:41: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA6F37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:41:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sentinel.vg.tzo.com (h179n2fls32o972.telia.com [217.208.226.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C7343E31 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Daniel.Eriksson@computer.org) Received: from gadget (gadget [192.168.168.3]) by sentinel.vg.tzo.com (8.12.3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6A8euQ2003812 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:41:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Daniel.Eriksson@computer.org) From: "Daniel Eriksson" To: Subject: RE: Upcoming 4.6.1 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:40:58 +0200 Organization: Virtual Gadgets Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <200207092205.g69M5GfP029799@cwsys.cwsent.com> Importance: Normal Disposition-Notification-To: "Daniel Eriksson" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Maybe because they are not bug fixes? If we go through the trouble of releasing a new version of FreeBSD why not include a few close-to-critical bug fixes if they are trivial and known to be correct? I fail to see the logic of releasing an x.x.1 version that still has serious known problems that there are known fixes for. -- Daniel Eriksson Lurker extraordinaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message