Severe bug in libbsd

[Chris Johns]

On 30/07/2018 15:13, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 30/07/18 02:49, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 27/07/2018 23:01, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> On 27/07/18 14:53, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> On 27/07/18 14:49, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>>>> OK. Should this kind of announcement go to users@?
>>>> RTEMS 5 will be the first release with a corresponding libbsd branch, e.g.
>>>> there is no 4.11 branch in libbsd.
>>> Ok, this is wrong. There is a 4.11 branch in libbsd. I am not sure if there
>>> exists someone who cares about this branch. Maybe we should delete it.
>>>
>> Please do not delete the branch. The 4.11.3 release contains the libbsd package.
>>
>> I can remove libbsd from the 4.11.4 release but I cannot go back in time and
>> remove it from the previous releases. Let me know if you think libbsd should not
>> be in any future 4.11 releases.
> 
> The libbsd on the 4.11 branch is based on FreeBSD 9.3. Here the callout
> implementation is different and this bug is not present.
> 
> Since we have now this libbsd on the 4.11 branch I think we can keep it. I don't
> have time to maintain it.
> 

Sorry, I cannot follow this. Should I create a libbsd package on the next 4.11
release?

Chris