Thursday, June 24, 2021

Re: Why 16 year old zlib 1.2.3 in OpenBSD 6.9 released May 2021 please?

> So feisty.

Seriously?

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:33 PM Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> wrote:

> Matt Dowle <mattjdowle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's right. I don't understand.
> > Could you explain it then, or point me to a document that explains what
> > your development process is?
> > Putting two and two together, it seems that it is 16 years plus a bunch
> of
> > cherry picked bug fixes backported over a very many years. If that's what
> > you do, whilst I understand that can make some sense to keep patching
> say 5
> > year old libraries, at some point it becomes too old and too risky.
>
> So feisty.
>

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