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Re: Proposal: Officially cease support for building Launchpad on Intrepid, or bring the Launchpad PPA up to date

 

On October 6, 2009, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
> > The dev wiki currently claims that you can build LP on Hardy through
> > Karmic. Given the current state of the Launchpad PPA for Intrepid (old
> > launchpad-dependencies version), that's a bit of a fib.
> >
> > We ought to resolve this situation one way or another.
> >
> >From Canonical's POV, I don't think we care at all about Intrepid any
> 
> more.  So it would only be a problem if not supporting Intrepid hindered
> a community developer -- and it seems reasonably likely that someone
> ambitious enough to be trying Lauchpad development won't be on Intrepid
> any more.
> 
> So I guess that's +1 from me for ceasing to pretend Lauchpad works on
> Intrepid.

Yep, let's drop Intrepid support. We can probably also drop Jaunty support 
after the next Ubuntu release. All Lauchpad developers should be on Karmic 
already, but let's give them some breathing space.

So, we need to support Hardy (for deployment) and Karmic (for development). We 
should drop Intrepid support now and Jaunty support in one month. 


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Francis J. Lacoste
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