Hi, also totally off topic. I was asked to gather up all the lubuntu releases[1] as I also removed them at EoL. turns out that there are still 586 cpu's out there!! And, yes, I am still one missing - the very 1st one.
Regards, Phill. 1. http://phillw.net/isos/lubuntu/ On 7 June 2018 at 10:17, Tobias Urdin <tobias.ur...@crystone.com> wrote: > I'm not talking about quality, security or basically nothing in between > either. > Just the plain annoyance when packages are removed from mirrors. > > Lets just pretend for a while you're new at a job, and the most common > thing is you inherit old setups. > > On that day you inherit an old OpenStack setup, on an old version, and > the next version > to upgrade does not exist in mirrors so you have no packages, and you > cannot jump any more forward > without a lot of work. > > We all know and have agreed in the community surveys so many times that > upgrades are are hard. > Well just let me end it with, I don't envy a person being in that > situation... > > Best regards > > On 06/07/2018 10:38 AM, Matthias Runge wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 05:13:06AM +0000, Tobias Urdin wrote: > >> Just sliding in with my 2 cents which are off-topic to the discussion > but... > >> > >> I've always found it fascinating why one would completely remove > >> packages from official mirrors when the version is not supported > anymore. > >> There will probably always be somebody that might be looking for them, > >> I've always had that feeling with RPMs compared to Debs. > > Can you elaborate here on how RPMs are different to .debs? > > > > What do you expect, when you're installing these packages? > > Do you expect them to work? Do you expect, they won't create > > a security issue? Do you want to be able to use them in > > production? Is there a value in distributing something, which > > doesn't work (anymore)? > > > > What happens, if there is an issue, or a distributed rpm contains > > a CVE? In that case, we'd actively distribute vulnerable software. > > I always wondered, why someone would ask for software with > > a vulnerability (or more). > > > > This is to get expectations right[1]. It might look good at the > > beginning, but can turn bad quite quickly. > > > > Matthias > > > > [1] https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/1003934362403049472 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@lists.rdoproject.org > http://lists.rdoproject.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > To unsubscribe: dev-unsubscr...@lists.rdoproject.org >
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