Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites multiple packages

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:08:21PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:11:32AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > > > All,
> > > William,
> > >
> > > At what point do we not care about users who have not upgraded and will
> > > miss this security message?
> >
> >  I would say that's more up to you as the maintainer, but put something
> >  to the affect in the mask comment.
> >
> >  # This mask will be removed <whenever>
> >
> > William
> >
>
> Fair enough. This question is to anyone that supports users and works on
> bugs.  Especially the portage devs. At what point do you say to a user
> that their system is so old that they really need to upgrade?
>
> 2 years, 1 year, < 1 year?  Maybe that's a good thing to state in documentation.

We already have a distro policy about this. I put ulm on this email
specifically, because he knows where the link is, and I don't right now.

Basically, at the distro level, anything over a year old is fair game to
be dropped.

William