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From: Balwinder S Dheeman on 6 Dec 2009 06:32 On 12/05/2009 08:38 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + talon(a)lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon): > >> And for the base system, when you get at the n.2 release, that is when >> it becomes reasonably debugged, immediately a (n+1).0 release appears, >> full of bugs, and the n.* becomes unmaintained. > > What universe do you live in? It must be quite exciting. > In mine, it appears that 6.4, 7.1 and 7.2 are still maintained. Maintained? Or problems are not being reported for these, because either there no users or nobody bothers to fix ... -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux(a)HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
From: Moe Trin on 6 Dec 2009 13:26 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, in article <7bhsu6xjgq.ln2(a)news.homelinux.net>, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: >Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: >> What universe do you live in? It must be quite exciting. >> In mine, it appears that 6.4, 7.1 and 7.2 are still maintained. >Maintained? Or problems are not being reported for these, because >either there no users or nobody bothers to fix ... Don't subscribe to Bugtraq? ===================================== Topic: SSL protocol flaw Category: contrib Module: openssl Announced: 2009-12-03 Credits: Marsh Ray, Steve Dispensa Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.0-STABLE) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_8_0, 8.0-RELEASE-p1) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-STABLE) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7.2-RELEASE-p5) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RELEASE-p9) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p8) 2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p14) CVE Name: CVE-2009-3555 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>. ===================================== Looks like a few older releases are still being maintained as of last Thursday. If you can't spare the time to subscribe to the mailing list, grab the full list of newsgroups your news server carries, and search for the string 'bugtraq' to find which of the 20+ groups that mirror it are available. It's averaging 250 posts/articles a month. Old guy
From: Michel Talon on 6 Dec 2009 14:00 Moe Trin <ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld> wrote: > >Maintained? Or problems are not being reported for these, because > >either there no users or nobody bothers to fix ... > > Don't subscribe to Bugtraq? Do you mean maintainance is equivalent to fixing security bugs? What about all over bugs which are infinitely more numerous? -- Michel TALON
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen on 6 Dec 2009 19:37 + talon(a)lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon): > Moe Trin <ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld> wrote: >> >Maintained? Or problems are not being reported for these, because >> >either there no users or nobody bothers to fix ... >> >> Don't subscribe to Bugtraq? > > Do you mean maintainance is equivalent to fixing security bugs? What > about all over bugs which are infinitely more numerous? If you follow the appropriate -STABLE branch, such as RELENG_6 or RELENG_7, you should be getting at least some bug fixes besides security bugs. If you follow RELENG_6_4 or RELENG_7_2, you get only security and critical bug fixes (for some value of "critical"). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell
From: Michel Talon on 7 Dec 2009 09:09
Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche(a)math.ntnu.no> wrote: > + talon(a)lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel Talon): > > > Moe Trin <ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld> wrote: > >> >Maintained? Or problems are not being reported for these, because > >> >either there no users or nobody bothers to fix ... > >> > >> Don't subscribe to Bugtraq? > > > > Do you mean maintainance is equivalent to fixing security bugs? What > > about all over bugs which are infinitely more numerous? > > If you follow the appropriate -STABLE branch, such as RELENG_6 or > RELENG_7, you should be getting at least some bug fixes besides security > bugs. If you follow RELENG_6_4 or RELENG_7_2, you get only security and > critical bug fixes (for some value of "critical"). > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html > Everybody knows this. Do you really believe one instant that the developers who are now busy working on the 9.* branch will do anything non trivial on the 6.* or 7.* branch? -- Michel TALON |