Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:37:10 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Johannes Jost Meixner <johannes@perceivon.net> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>, junovitch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Expiring the Fedora 10 ports on 2016-03-31 Message-ID: <CADL2u4gEJPL8KxPHoX778ui4FFdCa_%2BLC_C4=KJ5%2Bqnsz2ZD0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56C62249.6010402@perceivon.net> References: <56C62249.6010402@perceivon.net>
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2016-02-18 20:58 GMT+01:00 Johannes Jost Meixner <johannes@perceivon.net>: > > Fedora 10 has been EoL'd by the Fedora project on 2009-12-17 [1] and > thus has not been receiving any security updates during more than six > (!) years. > > As a result of this, many of the ports that form the basis for the > Fedora 10 infrastructure are riddled with more holes than a decent > cheese, and with time passing by this isn't getting any better. > > I propose that we eliminate all Fedora 10 ports on March 31st -- > > 2016-03-31. > > This because during the upcoming six weeks, those who have not managed > to migrate off Fedora 10 will probably not do so at a later date, and > because it will be a convenient date for not having it included in the > 2016Q2 branch. > This sounds like a plan, f10 is indeed long overdue. > During previous developer summits [2] it was mentioned that apparently > some vendors depend on legacy software running off this Fedora 10. > > As CentOS itself is originally based on the Fedora 12 release (albeit, > due to RHEL being around, is supported until 30 November, 2020 ), > chances are these vendors will find that their software works > flawlessly with CentOS 6.7 (as any game that I've tested during spring > 2014 did). > So this might be a plausible upgrade path? > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life > [2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/201407DevSummit/LinuxEmulation?highlight=3D%= 28legacy%20software%29 > Regards, Ren=C3=A9 --=20 https://rene-ladan.nl/
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