Re: Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-08 Thread Dima Dorfman
The whole "Stable Branch" thread on -security gave me an idea that's been perculating for some time. Problem: We have security problems in (say) -STABLE. They get fixed. We post an advisory about it, giving correction dates for -STABLE and -CURRENT, and the associated cutoff in which

Re: Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-08 Thread Dima Dorfman
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 12:53:16AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Dima Dorfman remarked Why not just use a date? I do this on most of my systems. My `uname -r` reads: 4.1-2916-STABLE I started doing this for the exact same reason you described above--to know when I

Bugfixes, security fixes, versions

2000-10-07 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
The whole "Stable Branch" thread on -security gave me an idea that's been perculating for some time. Problem: We have security problems in (say) -STABLE. They get fixed. We post an advisory about it, giving correction dates for -STABLE and -CURRENT, and the associated cutoff in which releases