Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > On 07/11/2016 02:42 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> RHEL/CentOS 6 is still a common development target, and I strongly feel >> that we should continue to support it out of the box. RHEL 5 is >> starting to fade, though, so we may finally be able to bump to something >> newer than autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6.
OK, I didn't know that. > When the original distributor no longer supports an operating system, > we can drop support too. We've used this heuristic with Solaris, IRIX, > etc. to good effect. For RHEL, release 5 is scheduled for end-of-life > on 2017-03-31 so we can drop support for it then. RHEL 6's EOL is > currently scheduled for 2020-11-30, and RHEL 7's is 2024-06-10. See: > > https://linuxlifecycle.com/ It is a conservative policy but seems reasonable after all. I will try to not forget to resend this crucial patch in 2020! ;) -- Mathieu Lirzin
