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Date:      13 Feb 2001 02:29:54 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)
Message-ID:  <xzpzofrmktp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:21:58 -0700"
References:  <200102130105.f1D15aU56009@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130121.f1D1LwW33639@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes:
> I'd like to see a bias against major bumps remain in place, but I
> think that this change requires one.  That is, we still don't
> generally bump major verions, but are allowed to when the pain is
> major.

We can keep that bias by using temporary three-digit majors in
-CURRENT and backing down to a single-digit major right before the
first -RELEASE. In this specific case, we'd go from 5 to 500 or 501,
then back to 5 right before 5.0-RELEASE; this will still screw people
with older-than-feb-10 systems but at least they'll have plenty of
time to rebuild their ports and stuff. For 6.0, we'd go straight from
5 to 600 or 601, then down to 6 right before 6.0-RELEASE, and nobody
would get screwed. You know it makes sense.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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