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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Even OpenSuSE LEAP 42.3 (latest OpenSuSE release) ships with MariaDB 10.0.x.

-- Peter

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just read:
>         https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/
>
> It says the 5 year boundary date for support ending for 10.0 is 31 Mar
> 2019, and later goes on to specify why 5.5 has a later EOL, "The MariaDB
> Foundation may decide to maintain selected releases beyond the normal 5
> years if they are in exceptionally widespread use. As MariaDB 5.5 is
> included in multiple prominent Linux distributions with a lifespan beyond
> 2017, the Foundation is committed in maintaining it until 2020."
>
> Is SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12, with MariaDB Server 10.0, not
> considered a “prominent Linux distribution”? SLES12 released in 2014, comes
> with MariaDB Server 10.0, and requires at least 10 years of support (
> https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/).
>
> Just checking to see if the maintenance policy above is in error
>
> Thanks
> --
> Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/
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>
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