RFC: ABI break

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Expected etch release is after 12 months,
> > these days might be kernel of FreeBSD 6.x the preferred one.
> 
> Maybe yes, but currently it is not yet usable, so doing changes that may
> break support for FreeBSD 5.4 give me some fear. If we could have a
> FreeBSD 6.x that proves to work well, I am not against making such
> changes. That's why I prefer such changes to be done later.

Why don't we just take the same approach as upstream?  If upstream considers
6.x stable enough to deprecate 5.4 completely, then so do we?

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Robert Millan