Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

From: Uzi Klein (uzi_at_bmby.com)
Date: 04/18/05

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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    Brett Glass wrote:
    > At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the
    >>salaries of the release engineering team for a few months,
    >
    >
    > The same way they're being paid for their work on other
    > releases? ;-)
    >
    ouch!
    >
    >>Eh? If the important part is the security fixes, why not just
    >>install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes?
    >

    That's what we usually do whenever there's a security fix...
    I didn't see a new release pops up for after each security fix.

    >
    > That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough
    > that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to
    > produce a release containing other code that's been backported
    > from 5.x and 6.x.

    Sounds interesting, but, while you were asking about SMP, AMD64 etc.
    that's not backporting, That's kernel handling AFAIK.

    >
    > --Brett Glass
    > 

    -- 
Uzi Klein
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