[ On , March 14, 1999 at 16:09:02 (-0500), Perry E. Metzger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pkg/7158: a package for mailwrapper for NetBSD < 1.4
>
> The 1.4 branch is at the end of the month. I'm not sure how much 1.3
> back-porting effort we really should keep making at this time.

True enough, but if history is any judge the pkgsrc-current stuff will
be used on 1.3.x (and I think even 1.2.x) machines until the day that it
simply fails to work because of totally incompatible changes to the
underlying build systems, etc.

In the mean time it'll take a whole lot more than just a month for
people to even begin to upgrade existing production systems, even if 1.4
really does ship within a month (I see nobody's published a release date
for 1.4 yet).  I'm hoping that my solution for upgrading mailwrapper in
1.3.x systems is both easy enough to include in pkgsrc as well as
attractive enough for 1.3.x admins who don't use sendmail to try using
now instead of waiting for 1.4.

The real question though is whether or not any "official" position has
been taken by TNF on when 1.3.x support will be terminated (I'm assuming
for the moment that the appearance of a formal 1.4 release won't
immediately spell the end of 1.3.x security patches, for example); and
of course whether or not the users of 1.3.x would agree with immediate
dropping of support when 1.4 is fully available.

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