Tom Lane wrote:
> "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> I see that there are two or three minor bug fixes in the REL7_3_STABLE
>>> branch since 7.3.20. Rather than just leaving those to rot, maybe the
>>> actual policy should be "only one more update after 8.3 comes out".
>
>> I assume you no longer need to maintain it for Redhat then?
>
> Well, I still do, nominally, but RHEL-3 is in maintenance mode (meaning
> no more scheduled updates). It would take a fairly serious bug to get
> Red Hat's attention to the point that they'd want to turn the package.
> If something like that came up, very possibly we'd want to put out a
> fix too. What I'm thinking is more along the lines of not bothering
> with back-patching non-catastrophic bugs, and not automatically
> including 7.3 in the set of branches we make back-branch releases for.
OK, well +1 for dropping it from me then.
/D
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