[OpenAFS] When to publish security advisories?

Patricia O'Reilly oreilly@qualcomm.com
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:39:54 -0700


Is there any problem connecting 1.6 clients with 1.4.14 servers?

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> We need to be careful that we don't burn out the volunteers who provide
>> this service by creating releases too frequently. This is going to be
>> especially important in the next few months when we'll be maintaining
>> both a new stable series (1.6.x) and a legacy one (1.4.x)
> 
> I should probably note here that I've already stopped maintaining Debian
> packages for 1.4.x except for security fixes.  What released with squeeze
> is it for 1.4 except for security problems, now that Debian unstable has
> 1.6.
>