On 10/05/2017 17:37, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Distro vendors put in serious work to keep versions working for 5 - 10 > years. We can't, and we don't. All we do is try not to break things, > which is nice, and helps the distro vendors some, but a far cry from > anything I'd dare call "support". > > Perhaps an argument could be made that us keeping to try for at least 5 > years would help distro vendors enough to be worthwhile. Maybe, but > color me skeptic.
It's the opposite. Distro vendors care about it, so it is at least plausible to have things work from 5 years back, even if we don't test it. Of course there will be bugs and corner cases. Paolo
