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Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

From: Janne Johansson (jan.johanssonit.su.se)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 03:28:23 CST


Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:35:50AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>> This was announced on ports IIRC.
>>
>>> So if there are security bugs in a package or port shipped with OpenBSD
>>> 4.2, there will be no updated package or updated port available?
>> That is correct.
>
> Now, this will prevent me from upgrading to 4.2.
>
> This is bad.

The solution is very simple though. Everyone has been told what was
lacking in order to keep it up, so just make those resources available
and it will spring back up again. Simple as that.

Noone said "we dont want stable packages".