What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ?

Tue Jan 30 22:30:29 UTC 2007

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-Jan-30 14:51:15 -0500, Chris Marlatt wrote:
>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>> plan to MFC it after 4 or 5 days. I am actually considering only
>>> MFC'ing it to RELENG_6 to help provide some incentive for those on 5.x
>>> to upgrade.
>> One would assume that the release would be supported up until the EOL 
>> provided on freebsd.org of May 31, 2008.
> 
> "Support" does not mean that new features and upgrades are automatically
> back-ported.  Security fixes and some bug-fixes will be provided.  If you
> want new features, you may need to upgrade (hence Doug's suggestion that
> not MFCing bind 9.3.4 to RELENG_5 is an incentive to upgrade to 6.x).
> 

Quite true, but as recent as the release of 5.5 (as well as all past 5 
series releases) BIND was updated.

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/relnotes-i386.html#CONTRIB

Is it unfair to assume this would continue to happen, if at the very 
least to RELENG_5?