svn commit: r303716 - head/crypto/openssh

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Aug 9 04:43:44 UTC 2016


On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:25 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 03:48:44PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/7/16 14:20, Warner Losh wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Aug 7, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Andrey Chernov <ache at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> OTOH, FreeBSD has a documented deprecation process that says things will
>> >>> continue working for a major release after being formally deprecated.
>> >>
>> >> FreeBSD 11 is not released yet (betas are not counted), stable-10 too,
>> >> so it is right time to deprecate for them.
>> >
>> > Nice try, but feature freeze was months ago. Have you got buy in from the
>> > security officer and the release engineer?
>>
>> Well, despite the fact that I have to admit that I get locked out from
>> my own storage box too, however (even without wearing any hat) I am for
>> the change and would blame myself for being lazy in adopting the change
>> when the upstream have announced it earlier about a year ago.
>
> While the timing sucks, I don't see any way around this change given our
> experience with the HPN patches and that upstream plans to kill this
> feature, we must not ship 11 with support enabled.  There's just no
> practical way to keep adding back a feature for 4-5 years.

Then we should put http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html in the release notes,
UPDATING and maybe the man page.

Warner


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