On 02/08/12 21:21, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi Daniel:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Just wondering if anyone has already started looking at doing 3.1.8 with
>> the security fix?
> 
> That depends.  Are we still maintaining the 3.1.x tree?  Traditionally
> we have kept with the current branch and one release branch before.
> For instance if current web is at 3.5 then we maintain that and 3.4.

I remember that logic - but that doesn't really reflect what the
distributions do

Just backporting/cherry-picking the most essential security fixes to an
old branch shouldn't be a big pain though

> I believe Kostas has already pushed out patches for 3.1.7 to
> Fedora/EPEL so in terms of distributed binary packages I guess we
> should be fine?

Debian 6 also has 3.1.x - when this was mentioned before, I thought
Kostas was updating the 3.1 branch and then the Debian and Fedora
packages could all be built from the same tarball

Kostas, could you possibly commit what you did onto the 3.1 branch and
then I'll release a tarball?

However, I can't see the 3.1 branch in git... does anyone know where it
went or a quick way to revive it?

$ git branch -a
* master
  release/3.3
  release/3.4
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/php-support
  remotes/origin/release/3.3
  remotes/origin/release/3.4



> We could potentially pull the old versions from SourceForge.net so
> people don't download the old versions, but they should really be
> getting the latest and greatest...

That's not what distributions support - keep in mind, for many people,
they only need something basic, they are happy to run apt-get or yum and
get the package in 30 seconds, and that convenience is more important
than new features - so they are not going to dedicate 30-60 minutes to
downloading a tarball and working out what to do with it


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