As threatened on 7 December, we are now in freeze for 2017Q4. During the freeze, I would like to limit changes to things that would be appropriate for pullup to a stable branch, and micro updates for leaf packages and leafy-5 package groups So this means the following is ok build fixes adding patches to fix functionality problems adding patches to fix security problems micro updates (those documented to have only bugfixes, and in particular no build system cahnges or ABI/API changes) carrying security fixes micro updates for leaf packages, (or a group of <=5 packages that together act as a leaf, when you look after all of them) and everything else, please don't. This reflects an intentional choice to prefer stability over having updates for recent upstream changes. The goal is a boring freeze that we come out of quickly, as soon as we get to the point where everything builds ok, at least as well as it did last quarter, and there is no reason to expect more progress. I am targetting a week from now but we'll see. Please update sources and do whatever testing you do -- pbulk, pkg_rr, or something else, on multiple platforms. For NetBSD we are trying to support 6, 7, and 8, and of course the usual versions of all other platforms. I realize we still have issues on systems with old compilers, and similar issues with g95. I hope we can resolve those soon after the branch. Thanks for your cooperation in producing another great pkgsrc branch. Greg
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