On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:33:27PM +0100, Joerg Jung wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:11:22AM -0800, Scott Vanderbilt wrote:
> > On 1/20/2016 10:44 AM, Jiri Navratil wrote:
> > 
> > >when following OpenBSD -current, I'm getting
> > >
> > >$ smtpd -h
> > >version: OpenSMTPD master
> > >usage: smtpd [-dhnv] [-D macro=value] [-f file] [-P system] [-T trace]
> > >
> > >$ uname -a
> > >OpenBSD mymachine 5.9 GENERIC.MP#29 amd64
> > >
> > >is the "master" intended ?
> 
> Yes.
>  
> > I'm not sure what the thinking is behind the change (maybe difficulties in
> > managing source for opensbd and portable?), but that is correct.
> > 
> > See: 
> > <http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/smtpd/smtpd.h.diff?r1=1.507&r2=1.508>
> 
> There was no real release since a while, only snapshots.
> 
> Master is considered the most recent development state, it is the so
> called current head.  Once a real (stable) release is rolled this will
> be changed to some real version number (for the release), afterwards it
> will likely be master again.
> 
> IMHO it would be nice to have snapshots date behind the "master" but
> that is not worth the effort (for me).

...and on OpenBSD the version does not really matter, because you have
the regular release there. AFAIK, no other OpenBSD daemon returns a
version, because it is just not needed: "It's the smtpd version of/on
OpenBSD 5.9"

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