From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 20 3:31: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sdns.kv.ukrtel.net (sdns.kv.ukrtel.net [195.5.27.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027A537B407; Mon, 20 May 2002 03:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vega.vega.com (195.5.51.243 [195.5.51.243]) by sdns.kv.ukrtel.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id J9KHZYGD; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:32:34 +0300 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4KAUZc02695; Mon, 20 May 2002 13:30:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3CE8D057.BEA07F0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:30:47 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu Cc: developers@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG, nectar@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is 4.3 security branch officially "out of commission"? References: <3CE8C3E2.EBF4EC8F@FreeBSD.org> <200205201008.g4KA8uKl000787@midway.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Syphers wrote: > > On Monday 20 May 2002 04:37 am, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I was notified by the members of the local FreeBSD community (we have > > a very strong presence of FreeBSD in ISP circles here) that seemingly > > 4.3 security branch isn't supported anymore, even though there was no > > official announcement about decommissioning. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html. I quote > --- > At this time, security advisories are being released for: > > FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE > FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE > > Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly encouraged to > upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned above. > --- > > As Kris Kennaway mentioned on May 8 (security@ archives...), the official > lifetimes of the security branches are not long, although the security team > may choose to extend support longer as a courtesy, presumably if they have > the manpower and interest. I see. What is the official procedure when somebody not from the security team want to maintain older releases? For example, as I said there is significant push from the local community to merge recent security fixes into older releases, so that it is likely that they could provide to me with tested patches for older releases they are interested in. May I merge them into 4.3 security branch without my commit bit being suspended for inappropriate MFCs into security branch? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message