Mailing List Archive: Releasing a code version that stays for a while

I've been working on a package for openssh to include in the NetBSD package
system (similar to the FreeBSD ports system). I'm being hindered in this
by the fact that updates to these packages can be extremely slow (2-3 days
minimum, more like 2 weeks including testing), too slow to compensate for
the fact that the tarfiles for back-level versions of openssh-1.2pre* are
going away.

Given that Linux and NetBSD (among others) are stable, might it be possible
to either have the next release stick around until 1.2.1 goes gold, or
(even better) a bug-patch-only 1.2.1 branch be forked off before more
enhancements start entering the tree?

Thanks,
David

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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, David Rankin wrote:

> I've been working on a package for openssh to include in the NetBSD
> package system (similar to the FreeBSD ports system). I'm being
> hindered in this by the fact that updates to these packages can
> be extremely slow (2-3 days minimum, more like 2 weeks including
> testing), too slow to compensate for the fact that the tarfiles for
> back-level versions of openssh-1.2pre* are going away.

What do you mean? All the old tar files are still around, you
should be able to get them from:

http://violet.ibs.com.au/openssh/files/old/

or a mirror.

> Given that Linux and NetBSD (among others) are stable, might it be
> possible to either have the next release stick around until 1.2.1
> goes gold, or (even better) a bug-patch-only 1.2.1 branch be forked
> off before more enhancements start entering the tree?

I hope to have a stable release before the end of the year for
NetBSD, Linux, Solaris and hopefully HPUX.

Since I am on holidays now, I have a bit more time to work on
OpenSSH (modulo xmas and new years).

Regards,
Damien Miller

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