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In article <20020608130907.A92176@unixdaemons.com>,
Bosko Milekic  <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> wrote:
> 
>   While I agree that -STABLE is a more sensitive fish (which is partly
>   why I really don't enjoy dealing with it -- this argument always comes
>   up), I think that these types of changes absolutely need to go into
>   -CURRENT.  We shouldn't have to worry about "breaking binary
>   compatibility" in our development releases.  I can almost guarantee
>   that a lot of stuff isn't going to work without a rebuild when people
>   decide to go from 4.x to 5.0 anyway.  Placing dummy-fillers is just
>   annoying.

OK, I can live with that for -current.

John
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