Hi, dropping debian wheezy are quite fast - till now there aren't packages for jessie?! Dropping of squeeze I understand, but wheezy at this time? Udo On 30.07.2015 15:54, Sage Weil wrote: > As time marches on it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain proper > builds and packages for older distros. For example, as we make the > systemd transition, maintaining the kludgey sysvinit and udev support for > centos6/rhel6 is a pain in the butt and eats up time and energy to > maintain and test that we could be spending doing more useful work. > > "Dropping" them would mean: > > - Ongoing development on master (and future versions like infernalis and > jewel) would not be tested on these distros. > > - We would stop building upstream release packages on ceph.com for new > releases. > > - We would probably continue building hammer and firefly packages for > future bugfix point releases. > > - The downstream distros would probably continue to package them, but the > burden would be on them. For example, if Ubuntu wanted to ship Jewel on > precise 12.04, they could, but they'd probably need to futz with the > packaging and/or build environment to make it work. > > So... given that, I'd like to gauge user interest in these old distros. > Specifically, > > CentOS6 / RHEL6 > Ubuntu precise 12.04 > Debian wheezy > > Would anyone miss them? > > In particular, dropping these three would mean we could drop sysvinit > entirely and focus on systemd (and continue maintaining the existing > upstart files for just a bit longer). That would be a relief. (The > sysvinit files wouldn't go away in the source tree, but we wouldn't worry > about packaging and testing them properly.) > > Thanks! > sage > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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