On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:26:04PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > Note that I'm not saying we shouldn't upgrade our requirements at all, > just that I'm worrying about going from one extreme to the other in > terms of version requirements - it feels like there's a step change when > you move from things you can get in current release distros people are > likely to be using to things that will require a large proportion of > people to install extra stuff. At the minute we're more at the other > end where it can be hard to figure out who'd even have the oldest > versions we support without deliberately seeking them out and keeping > them going is noticably making work for people. Regarding "one extreme to the other", I suspect that in spite of my arguments, which would seem to justify an extreme, the actual thing I suggested is a bit more moderate: let's support the latest 2 or 3 gccs at the time of kernel release. If we choose 3, that's roughly 3 years of gccs, right? 3 years seems like a fairly long amount of time. Jason
