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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2018 13:07:38 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r325739 - in head: lib/libcasper/services lib/libcasper/services/cap_syslog share/mk
Message-ID:  <20180318170738.GB35894@raichu>
In-Reply-To: <20180318142039.GA81224@x-wing>
References:  <201711120834.vAC8YQUq006611@repo.freebsd.org> <20180305161358.GA704@raichu> <20180305171916.GA2359@lonesome.com> <20180318142039.GA81224@x-wing>

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On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 03:20:39PM +0100, Mariusz Zaborski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:19:16AM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:13:58AM -0500, Mark Johnston wrote:
> > > The growing divergence with stable/11 makes it rather painful to
> > > maintain a port, depending on libcasper, that aims to work on both 11
> > > and head.
> > 
> > Even an MFC won't help you, in the medium-term.
> > 
> > e.g. via https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup, even if the MFC made it
> > into 11.2, you would still have several months of supporting the old
> > one.  (The FreeBSD package builds are based on the oldest supported
> > point release from a branch.)  The current estimate for 11.2 is late June.
> > 
> > mcl
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for delay I just get back.
> 
> Yes I can integrate all my changes in libcasper and I guess libcapsicum.
> I'm did do a lot of integrations to stable so I have one question -
> if I understand correctly all changes which change API/ABI but are
> pointed as SHLIB_MAJOR I can safety integrate.
> 
> Mark what else can I do?

Sorry, I don't quite follow. I don't think SHLIB_MAJOR bumps can be
MFCed: what happens if an SA is later released for the library in
question?



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