Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 17:33:39 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, sheldonh@starjuice.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200106092333.f59NXel17298@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jun 2001 18:25:53 CDT." <20010609182553.E9537@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> References: <20010609182553.E9537@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <394.992080574@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200106091621.f59GLPl15943@billy-club.village.org> <20010609123918I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <20010609182553.E9537@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Will Andrews writes: : Could you remind me why medium-to-serious bugfixes were excluded? : Because any production server/network operator would tell you : that they'd like those fixed too, not just security holes. And I : believe that's for whom the branch is intended. Because the whole point was to allow binary updates easily. It was specifically limited to security fixes and those things that were so critical that the release engineer deemed necessary to be included. If you want medium to serius bug fixes, run -stable. Otherwise you run the risk of changing too many things in that branch and it is no longer close to 4.3. The more things you have going into the branch, the more things you have that could introduce security probelms. Also, we get into the problem where we have lots of branches active, which is a huge pita. That's the reasoning. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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