From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Lundquist Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:13:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot maintainer and stable releases In-Reply-To: <1231330238.32308.334.camel@elrond.atmel.com> References: <87prj1v4dy.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231243376.32308.52.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87vdsssiwo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <200901070409.42558.markus.heidelberg@web.de> <1231326832.32308.320.camel@elrond.atmel.com> <87prizl5im.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <1231330238.32308.334.camel@elrond.atmel.com> Message-ID: <20090107181337.GB14648@zelow.no> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:10:38PM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote: > > It is not fixed by a system which has stable distributions > which are removed and replaced with another stable > distribution which breaks support for a number of systems. Replaced? It's versioned (and tagged in the VCS) so it's not that an old version just ends up in /dev/null The main issue regarding older releases is that the source packages might not be available where they used to be. That's a different issue that seems to be addressed anyway. Thomas.