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Date:      Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:50:43 +0000
From:      Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: old ports/packages
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On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote:
>> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a
>> longer support cycle.
> Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release.  With the
> new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term
> support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be
> supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out.
> The last release in that series will then have a long support life so
> that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*].  The
> transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something
> you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new
> patch-level today.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
> [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of
> previous major branches has been up to now.
>

Is there somewhere any more information available about this change?

Cheers
Greg



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