Re: [PATCH 1/3] iptables: accept multiple IP address specifications for -s, -d

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-06-25 19:08, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On   2009-06-10 12:19:59, Patrick wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 2009-06-10 14:16, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>> Git is not as castrated as Hg when it comes to branches, so why not
>>>> make a "stable" branch that is then regularly merged into master? :)
>>> I don't see why that would currently be necessary. We're talking
>>> about a few days, and in fact I'd rather have people test the
>>> current code before the release instead of hacking on new things :)
>> Yeah but in general? The - judging from their version numbers -
>> x.y.z.S stable versions like 1.4.3.1 used to receive lots of new
>> features because there is just master, in which case it should
>> have been the new 1.4.4 already.
>> So either z is bumped more often and S-versions will not
>> be released, or S only receives fixes, necessiting a separate branch.
>> Objections?
> 
> It would be cool to get an answer here so I know how to twingle 
> patchbranches that I'd like to submit.

Well, I don't object to having a stable branch when we actually do
need to release pure bug-fix versions. But I'd say those can be
created on demand.