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Re: building for EOL releases

 

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On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 17:48 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:28:16AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Is there a way to manage/sustain current software builds for EOL distro
> > releases (e.g. cosmic).
> > 
> > I maintain the Mailman ppa and it shows that our Cosmic pkgs are behind
> > in version number compared to Xenial, etc.
> 
> We can enable building for obsolete releases for specific PPAs if we
> have to, but can you explain why this is necessary?  cosmic is now out
> of security support and we really don't want to encourage anyone to run
> it rather than upgrading to something newer.  My default suggestion
> would be for you to delete the cosmic packages from your PPA ...

Your default suggestion is my preferred choice, one that I didn't know
was available.  Please delete the cosmic packages from this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~mailman-administrivia/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

Thank you,

- -Jim P.
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