Confused about 9.6.2-P1 and 9.6-ESV

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4BA0595B.8090307 at dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes:
> On 03/16/10 20:57, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > In message <4BA04E63.8090200 at dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes:
> >> I noticed that the patchfix releases of BIND came out today, so
> >> congratulations on that. :)  However I was confused by the existence of
> >> both a 9.6.2-P1 and a 9.6-ESV (with the same code inside). Is 9.6.2-P1
> >> the last release on the 9.6 branch? For the purpose of "following" a
> >> branch in the FreeBSD ports and base am I better off with one or the
> >> other? The issue is trivial now since the code is the same, but are they
> >> expected to diverge?
> >>
> >> I understand the purpose of the -ESV branch, and I think it's great that
> >> ISC is doing this. I would just like to make some plans and need some
> >> guidance.
> > 
> > BIND 9.6-ESV is the extended support version of BIND 9.6.  It will
> > get security patches and other critical fixes added to it.  BIND
> > 9.6-ESV is supported until March 31, 2013.  It's for the vendors
> > that need longer support with less changes.
> > 
> > BIND 9.6.3 will be the next maintenance release and will have less
> > significant fixes in it in addition to security patches and other
> > critical fixes.  BIND 9.6.x (other than 9.6-ESV) will be EoL'd 6
> > months after the release of BIND 9.8.0 or March 31, 2013 which ever
> > comes first.
> 
> Ok, thanks for the response. I'm trying to parse what you wrote in terms
> of what to do with BIND in the FreeBSD base. The fact that at the point
> 9.6.x will be EOL'ed 9.6-ESV won't have the most up to date 9.6 code is
> a bit disturbing. When the plans for -ESV were first announced I thought
> the plans were to do what was done for 9.4, after the last release on
> that branch the -ESV version would come out. If I understand what you're
> proposing correctly, it's going to make my decisions down the road more
> difficult.
> 
> Doug

ESV's are supposed to be releases which are stable, no dot-o-itis.
We didn't feel 9.6.1 was stable enough so we waited for 9.6.2.  You
could always follow 9.6.x and then apply whatever changes to 9.6-ESV
appear after the final 9.6.x version.
 
Mark

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