challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Adrian Chadd]

2008/6/5 Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com>:

>
> The bugs in question are *not* replicable in 6.2, and each of the bug
> reports has said so.
>
> This is the major point of concern for us.  What happened between 6.2 and
> 6.3 to break so many drivers?
>

If its of major concern for you, then allocate some man hours, grab
the /usr/src/sys diffs between RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE  and
RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE.

The others on the list have stated over and over again that they
haven't seen any issues and would like to know precisely what they
are.

The diff between 6.2 and 6.3 /usr/src/sys is ~ 440,000 lines in total.
I can put the diff online for you if you'd like.

If stability is your main concern then you could throw some resources
at fixing 6.3 or throw some resources at backporting security fixes to
6.2. I'm sure noone has an agenda to squish the FreeBSD version you're
using for any reason other than there aren't enough people
volunteering / being paid to work on back-porting security fixes.

2c,


Adrian



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