On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:36:37PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > We currently support Debian 8 (oldstable) along with Debian 9 > (stable), but not without some compromises: > > * the libvirt-dbus, libvirt-ocaml and virt-manager projects do not > support the platform at all because it ships outdated versions of > some core components; > > * on the CI side of things, we are forced to drag in the JRE from > backports in order to be able to run the Jenkins agent. > > All things considered, the situation has been fairly manageable up > until now, but a couple of recent developments got me thinking that > perhaps it's time to let Jessie go: > > * the distribution has been moved from the regular Debian > infrastructure to archive.debian.org[1], a change which has > resulted in the daily update run failing and would require > investing time to adapt to; I'm a little confused why we saw any failures. The email link says that the LTS architectures were not moving to archive.debian.org x86_64 is an LTS arch so wouldn't have moved unless I'm misreading the mail. > > * Debian testing has recently entered the full freeze[2], which > means the release of Debian 10 can hopefully be expected to > happen within the next few month; > > * even if the Buster freeze period turned out to be exceedingly > long, according to our platform support policy[3] we only > promise to support a release for the two years after the most > recent major release: given that Debian 9 was released in June > 2017[4], we would be able to drop Debian 8 support in three > months' time regardless of whether or not Debian 10 has been > released in the meantime. > > Based on the above, I suggest we don't invest any time trying to keep > Debian 8 chugging along only to drop it in June, and instead declare > it as unsupported right now and move on with our lives. > > Thoughts? > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00006.html > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00003.html > [3] https://libvirt.org/platforms.html > [4] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases > -- > Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
