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Re: Dropping support for old Ubuntu releases

 

I've gone ahead with this and deleted Maverick and Natty support from
the PPA.

I further intent to delete Oneiric support fairly promptly after the
official Oneiric EOL date of 9th May.

Max.


On 23/03/13 21:19, Max Bowsher wrote:
> 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.
> 



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