On Dec 23, 2003, at 8:49 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 8:40 PM -0500 Garrett Rooney
> <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
>
>> Well, let's be fair, FreeBSD only gives official support for fairly
>> recent
>> branches, as in they only port security fixes back to the last few.
>> Other
>> than that, the older branches are as well supported as the committers
>> want
>> to make them. If people are willing to do the work of porting
>> changes back
>> to previous branches, they get backported, if not, they don't.
>
> If we are talking about major versions (1.x/2.x/3.x), yes: I'm in
> agreement. If we are talking about minor versions (1.1/1.2/1.3), well,
> no. ;-) -- justin
Well, I doubt that the difference between minor versions would be
enough to motivate someone to do the work in most cases, but if there's
some catastrophically bad data corrupting bug found after 1.1 is
released, and someone wants to port it back and release 1.0.whatever
with it, I don't see why that's a bad thing.
-garrett
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Received on Wed Dec 24 02:53:36 2003