Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

[Uzi Klein]

Brett Glass wrote:
> At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote:
>   
> 
>>Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the
>>salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, 
> 
> 
> The same way they're being paid for their work on other
> releases? ;-)
> 
ouch!
> 
>>Eh?  If the important part is the security fixes, why not just
>>install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes?
> 

That's what we usually do whenever there's a security fix...
I didn't see a new release pops up for after each security fix.

> 
> That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough
> that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to 
> produce a release containing other code that's been backported 
> from 5.x and 6.x.

Sounds interesting, but, while you were asking about SMP, AMD64 etc. 
that's not backporting, That's kernel handling AFAIK.

> 
> --Brett Glass
> 

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