From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 7 18:34:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41F116A4DA for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from mail.genesippc.com (mithrandir.softwarenexus.net [66.98.186.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A4E43D68 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:34:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@genesi-usa.com) Received: from p54b0d506.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.176.213.6] helo=yukito) by mail.genesippc.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Fyv5F-00080n-HO; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:29:46 +0000 From: "Matt Sealey" To: "'Mark Linimon'" Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:33:55 -0500 Organization: Genesi Message-ID: <022b01c6a1f3$ebf03270$99dfdfdf@bakuhatsu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: Acah8ckdPcRlRrJ4RqahDG1EbnstNAAAdCug In-Reply-To: <20060707182302.GA18488@soaustin.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, 'Bill Milford' Subject: RE: graphics/linux-dri on 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: matt@genesi-usa.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:34:07 -0000 > The policy is that we no longer require committers to make > sure things work on 4.X before they commit. To the extent > that people send patches, things will keep running. Well this is a kind of internal-to-ports thing that needs a small change, not really a "fix linux-dri" thing. It could happen with plenty of packages, so who deals with that? > The security team support for RELENG_4 is currently scheduled > to end on 20070131. After that point, ports support on 4 is > going to be especially problematic; I am currently trying to > determine _exactly_ how bad the bitrot on 4 is. It's worse > than people think. It's terrible. Nothing works properly day-to-day, but we manage to survive. I curse the day I decided I would leave this server at 4.9. > Anyone running a desktop needs to be on 6.1 or RELENG_6 now, > unless they are one of the few people affected by one of the > bugs, or for some reason are staying on 5.5 for now. Ah well. Good luck :) -- Matt Sealey Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations