Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:53:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/locale utf8.c Message-ID: <20071026145347.GA92529@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1193347863.93167.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <200710150951.l9F9pUm7026506@repoman.freebsd.org> <4720B30F.4040903@samsco.org> <20071025151707.GA11398@nagual.pp.ru> <4720E0AF.1010004@samsco.org> <4720E904.2090704@delphij.net> <4720EA15.40002@samsco.org> <20071025191437.GD16187@nagual.pp.ru> <1193347863.93167.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 05:31:03PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > What we need to try and avoid unless *absolutely* *necessary* is the > part Scott quoted above - binaries compiled on 6.3-REL should work on > 6.2-REL unless there was a really big issue and the solution to that > issue required us to break that. The reason is simple, people should be > able to continue running 6.2-REL "for a while" and still be able to > update their packages from packages-6-stable even after portmgr@ starts > using a 6.3-REL base for the builds This is news to me. I've never heard that we're that concerned with forward compatability even on a RELENG branch. We do not break the ABI for backwards compatability - in that everything (including kernel modules) that ran on 6.2 must run on 6.3. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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