Cheers Vincent :) Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 12:17:13AM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote: > > > > There are some changes in 3.7 (for several protocols) and we have > > > less than one week to test before scheduled final for 9.2 so I > > > really prefer him not upgrading. > > > > ok, understand, but if you check changelog for this new release: > > > > http://www.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2003- > > September/000062.html > > > > you can see that only kerberos support have a massive rewrite, other > > things is minor and imho it can't breat mandrake distro (rhost, sftp > > improvement, other fixes), but pam improvement in this release can > > be (on quick check) problem.. > > You know what? It doesn't matter. As the maintainer of the package, > and due to the fact we're frozen, plus other issues that I, being > involved with openssh and it's developers in other ways, I just do not > feel confident deploying 3.7 in 9.2. openssh is perhaps one of the > single most important packages in the distrib and I don't carelessly > update it. Typically, when I update openssh, I've tested it for a few > days on my own machine first. > > That's just the way it is and, I'm sorry, but if you disagree with it, > you're free to roll your own 3.7 packages and use them to your heart's > content. It will not be in cooker at this time. > > > if we will have openssh 3.6 in 9.2, then other updates for this > > package in 9.2 must be merged with this version, and today 3.6 is > > obsolete and support for updates for mdk packages must be two years > > (afaik).. i think, this can be in meantime bigest problem as "only" > > 3-4 days tested package.. > > Huh? Says who? Let's look at history: > > 8.2 came with 3.1p1; 3.6.1p2 was provided for updates today > 9. came with 3.4p1; 3.6.1p2 was likewise provided today > > What makes you think that 9.1 will have 3.6.1p2 for the next 2 years? > I don't think you bothered to look at how the updates work; please > don't make blanket statements like this when they are so obviously > incorrect. > > And, BTW, support is 18mos, not 2 years.
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