Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:34:22 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Satoshi Asami" <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <004101c09df9$890ecd00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200102230817.f1N8HN506575@vader.clickarray.com> <3A963091.8058B7D@FreeBSD.org> <20010223123030.E1899@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <3A9640F6.BF54E7E@FreeBSD.org>
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> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > As you may all know, the 3-stable branch has slowly being phased out > > > > for a while now. This is true for both the tree itself and the ports > > > > collection; fewer and fewer ports committers have 3-stable machines to > > > > test with, and the list of build errors kept growing little by little. > > Well, considering that the most of the people from the porting team do not have a > 3-stable box to test or debug ports on, and 3-stable package building on bento > will be terminated, I think it would be fair to officially declare end of > 3-stable support and remove 3-stable belts and whistles from the bsd.port.mk and > ports' Makefiles. This is true. Although I'm not a porter or committer, I'm a heavy user of FreeBSD and I try and keep all my systems as close-to-new as possible. I've found myself tripping over the 3.x cruft in bsd.port.mk a fair bit lately :) Should the whole "support for ports and packges" issue be formalized into a standard practice? I was thinking along the lines of "once <current_version>.3 is released, then package building and ports-tree support for <prior-version>.x will be terminated." Essentially, this means that people need to freeze their prior-version systems or bite the bullet and upgrade them -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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