Re: Bunch of bugs reported by Ilja van Sprundel

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:16:05PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> On 29.01.2018 22:01, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:58:16PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> >> Another point is to set a rule that ABI is stable between patch versions
> >> and binary packages (prebuilt software) still works as-is. I'm observing
> >> now users who abandon researching this OS just because a patch version
> >> of kerberos is not compatible with existing packages.
> > 
> > This is wrong. It's not a patch version, but a different minor release.
> > 
> > Joerg
> > 
> 
> Right, and we push broken packages to users:
> 
> lrwxrwxr-x   1 bouyer    netbsd     3 Mar 15  2017 7.1 -> 7.0
> 
> http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/
> 
> Assuming that we don't have resources / interest to build proper
> packages it might be better to revise this state and improve the
> situation. (My proposal is to abandon minor releases. Abandon CAs in
> favor of frequent patch releases.)

The correct fix is the same it has been for years: focus the resources
for binary packages on the latest minor release. Killing minor releases
is not going to improve anything except making things go even more stale
by forcing more work for pullup-compatible solutions.

Joerg