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[Diego Herranz <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand and that'll mean I'll have to move on, which in my case, it's
not a big issue. I was waiting until 20.04 LTS, though :)

>> The stable version of KiCad will always build with 16.04.

It looks like by the time 6.0 is out, Ubuntu 16.04 may still be officially
supported. Just something to have in mind.

Cheers,
Diego

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, 21:11 Nick Østergaard, <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can still run 5.1 on 16.04. If you want bleeding edge, don't lock
> yourself down with a "stable" system.
>
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 21:37, Diego Herranz
> <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I see. Are those dates when the respective OS support finishes or when
> we stop supporting them?
> > I was under the impression it is the former (although it is not fully
> clear) in which case that date is wrong.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Diego
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:16, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The listing I used when looking at whether our supported OS's had Boost
> 1.59 were the dates given here:
> http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/#_gnulinux. On that page,
> it says that our support for 16.04 ended in April.
> >>
> >> -Ian
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:03 PM Diego Herranz <
> diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I wasn't getting any nightly package update lately and checking [1]
> I've just noticed this boost bump has left Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) out.
> >>> Ubuntu 16.04 will be supported until April 2021 [2].
> >>>
> >>> Was this overlooked when checking distros? Or was it a deliberate
> decision? Is there anything that can be done?
> >>> I've been planning to move to a newer Ubuntu LTS release for some time
> but didn't really have the need while it is supported (everything stable
> and working very well).
> >>> I guess there may be more people in a situation similar to mine.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Diego
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> https://launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-dev-nightly
> >>> [2]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Table_of_versions
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 19:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> 10/2/2019 8:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >>>> > On 9/27/19 12:20 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> >>>> >> Hi,
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Am 26.09.19 um 22:26 schrieb Ian McInerney:
> >>>> >>> Ping. Is there any opposition to bumping the minimum Boost
> version to
> >>>> >>> 1.59?
> >>>> >> I still see no technical need to increase the minimal version for
> Boost.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >
> >>>> > The boost version used in Debian old stable is 1.62.  I think 1.59
> is a
> >>>> > pretty safe bet at this point for the development version.  For the
> 5.1
> >>>> > branch, we should keep the current version unless we are planning to
> >>>> > back port any of the testing features which were the primary reason
> for
> >>>> > the version bump request.  I will make the change as soon as I get a
> >>>> > chance, we can always revert it if it causes too much grief.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Cheers,
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Wayne
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>> I bumped the Boost version to 1.59.  If this causes any major
> headaches,
> >>>> I can always revert it.  Before we go using any new Boost stuff,
> please
> >>>> let the dust settle on the version bump change so we don't have to
> back
> >>>> out a bunch of changes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Wayne
> >>>>
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