Severe bug in libbsd

[Sebastian Huber]

On 30/07/18 08:59, Chris Johns wrote:
> 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?

In case all previous 4.11 release have this package, then it makes sense 
to have one for the latest release.

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