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Re: 0.6 Series Support EOL

 

Looks like I have more things to munge.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Aaron <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> Should we be moving to committing to the 0.8 branch by default, with only
> bug fixes to 0.7? Last time I tried, 0.7 was the default/mainline for bzr
> branch lp:duplicity etc.
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity
>
>
> lists 0.8 as Experimental, with 0.7 (and 0.6) as Development. We should
> probably also update README-REPO if 0.6 is now EOL, as that refers to 0.6
> as the stable branch.
>
> As always, thanks for your work shepherding the project.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
> On 2016-06-12 19:03, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is to announce that the 0.6 series has reached End-Of-Life.  No
> further updates or upgrades will be made to it.  The long term support
> folks can easily upgrade to the tarball version
> <https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+download>, the Daily PPA
> <https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/daily>, or the Stable
> PPA <https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa>,
> depending on their needs.
>
> The 0.7 series will continue while we work on 0.8 with an eye to ever
> larger backups and split signature files.
>
> We would love to work with the distros to figure out how to assist in
> their long term support needs, but currently we are at odds with how
> development is done. We do not have time to maintain dozens of different
> versions dependent on the vagaries of each of the distros, while at the
> same time adding new features.  Heck, we don't even have the time to
> maintain the half-dozen or so versions that Ubuntu would need.  So,
> progress will be made, but if you want or need to stick with the
> distribution repository for whatever reason, we'll try to help, but the
> most common response will be to upgrade to one of the above.
>
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
>
>
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