The repositories containing them are usually offered with lower guarantees, so we don't consider them when it comes to figuring out the minimum targeted version of our dependencies. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/platforms.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/platforms.rst b/docs/platforms.rst index 8c281afebd..90f14b02e8 100644 --- a/docs/platforms.rst +++ b/docs/platforms.rst @@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro -are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS). -Within each major release, only the most recent minor release is considered. +are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian +LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from +later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the +most recent minor release is considered. For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux, the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and -- 2.34.1
