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On 12/22/14 10:39, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:04 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:18:01PM +0100, Matthias Maier wrote: |
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>>> IMHO, maintaining a sensible set of old glibc versions of the last 5 |
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>>> years makes sense, and we should try to support it: |
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>> We have a general policy in the distro that says we only have to worry |
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>> about one year. Besides that, linux-2.6.32, which is the oldest kernel |
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>> glibc-2.20 will support was released in 2009, so I think it is |
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>> reasonable to drop the old glibc versions. |
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> I think a general policy like this makes sense. Nothing prevents a |
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> maintainer from keeping around stuff longer, but that should be up to |
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> them (and issues in old versions shouldn't be the responsibility of |
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> others to clean up if they are blockers - just move forward and let |
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> things break after a warning or treeclean if the problem is really |
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> serious). |
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Please let's not "tidy up" gentoo. That "old" stuff is useful even if |
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its not useful to those who don't see a use for it. Let the maintainers |
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decide if they want to put effort into keeping it around. |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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