Il 16/01/19 17:42, Matthias Andree ha scritto: > Am 20.12.18 um 14:17 schrieb Samuli Seppänen: >> Hi, >> >> I've worked on openvpn-vagrant and sbuild_wrapper recently[*] and >> noticed that mainstream support for Debian 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 ended: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases >> >> However, Ubuntu 12.04 is still under "Extended Security Maintenance", >> meaning that a small subset of packages still receive security updates: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/ESM/12.04 >> >> OpenVPN and OpenSSL are among the packages that Canonical still supports. >> >> The question is: do _we_ want to keep releasing OpenVPN packages for >> Ubuntu 12.04? > > Kill it, along with 14.04. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS>: "The LTS > designation applies only to specific subsets of the Ubuntu archive." - > and among those only a subset of packages, see > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases>: "Packages in main and restricted are > supported for 5 years in long term support (LTS) releases". You run > universe packages, you lose, and for whatever "supported" means in a > Ubuntu context.
Then Ubuntu 12.04 shall go. If won't have 2.4.x releases before April 2019 then Ubuntu 14.04 can go as well. I don't think packaging OpenVPN 2.5 for 14.04 would be useful anyways. Samuli _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
