On 2/17/23 14:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
Note: These changes mean that openSUSE is not considered as supported
anymore (since version 15.0 has been released in May 2018), and
RHEL/CentOS 8 will not be supported anymore in 3 months (since version
8.0 has been released in May 2019).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
This has the advantage of being a very simple change to the support
policy. However, it has the disadvantage that at this point both SLE15
and RHEL8 are not hard to support _at run-time_, only the build is a bit
problematic; so, it kinda throws away the baby with the bathwater.
I have posted another RFC at
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230217124150.205012-1-pbonz...@redhat.com;
they share the 4 year deadline but it only applies to non-native
dependencies (which means Python right now).
Thanks for posting this, it's useful to have two different possibilities
to compare.
Paolo
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docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index 1c1e7b9e11..cdc38f16a4 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -67,10 +67,11 @@ Non-supported architectures may be removed in the future
following the
Linux OS, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
-----------------------------------------
-The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support
-for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
-version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
-first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
+The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times for
+up to four years after its initial release. Support for the previous major
+version will be dropped one years after the new major version is released
+or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes first.
+In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian
LTS);
the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from later
releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the most
