On Friday 2011-09-09 11:31, Peter Volkov wrote: >В Чтв, 08/09/2011 в 16:41 +0200, Jan Engelhardt пишет: >> Oh we are nicely accumulating fixes & trivials already - do not worry >> about that. Just let me pull this off, all it means is that >> there is another branch head on iptables.git, and something convenient >> for the release manager to tag should the need arise for a .y release. >> Users already seem to like the idea[1]. >> [1] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=131499886708085&w=2 > >As the iptables maintainer in Gentoo I really appreciate such branch >management. BTW, I'd like to know how long stable branch will be >maintained? Or IOW how we'll find out that it's not maintained any more? >From my point of understanding: like we always have done, in other words: All release numbers are strictly monotonically increasing. The appearance of a iptables-1.4.13 will close any iptables-1.4.12.x. [ This is, if you have not noticed, the same way the Linux kernel is done. Once linux-3.1 appears, the linux-3.0.x line usually ceases. ] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
