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[Max Bowsher <_@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm starting to give some thought to updating the ~svn PPA for
Subversion 1.7.8 and Ubuntu raring.

Whilst doing so, it's come to my attention that it's time to consider
dropping support for old Ubuntu releases.

So far, we've built packages for hardy, and lucid through quantal.

Support for maverick has been officially removed from the PPA build
service (and rightly so, it's been EOL for ages).

This means we no longer have an unbroken series of supported distros
back to lucid, which prompts the question of when we should drop support
for natty and oneiric too. Natty is already EOL. Oneiric passes EOL in
just 1 month. My inclination is to drop support for natty now, and
oneiric as soon as it officially goes EOL.

Furthermore, we need to consider what our plans are for support for
hardy. Hardy also officially transitions to full EOL status in 1 month.
It being a LTS, I'm inclined to be a little more relaxed about it, but
once it has passed EOL, I'll probably suggest dropping the packages next
time some non-trivial backport annoyance affects only hardy.

PLEASE SPEAK UP WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS IF YOU ARE OPPOSED TO ME
DELETING THE MAVERICK AND NATTY PACKAGES FROM THE PPA.

Thanks,
Max.