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