>>>>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> This is not about finding solution to upgrade the system (in this case >> it was enough to force PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_8 for portage). This is >> about raising awareness that Gentoo is a rolling distribution and that >> we guarantee users to be able to upgrade their system when they do world >> upgrades just once a year (remember: in my case the last world upgrade >> is just 4 months old!). If they cannot upgrade their system without >> manual intervention, we failed to do our job.
> Do we have this "guarantee" documented somewhere? I thought I've > heard six months tossed around. You say one year. It seems > reasonable to have some sort of guideline like this and try to stick > with it, at least for @system. We do. Summary of 2009-11-09 Council meeting: | https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt | | Upgrade path for old systems | ---------------------------- | Vote (unanimous): The ebuild tree must provide an upgrade path to a | stable system that hasn't been updated for one year. | | Action: leio will start a discussion on gentoo-dev on if and how to | support upgrading systems that are outdated more than a year.
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