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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is 2.1.6.1 a higher release than -stable?
Date: 18 Jan 1997 22:44:32 GMT
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:

>  Is -stable the same as 2.1.6.1 plus fixes or is -stable something entirely 
> different?

-stable is a branch (to be more exact, it's called ``2.1-stable'').
2.1.6.1 is supposedly to be the final release from this branch.

We expect the 2.2 branch to be named ``2.2-stable'' once the 2.2
release version is out.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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