On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 22:33 +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
On 05/27/2011 10:26 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 27/05/2011 22:06, Andrew Joakimsen a écrit :
Sure its EOL, sure it's not suggested to use, etc, etc. But why do we need to break people's package managers?
symlink the old URL and the new?
jdd
Unfortunately, there's only one mirror keeping the old version.
Only one way, more communication about it. Was on opensuse-security, on -project, on lizards, but seems insufficient.
And I dropped the ball on getting an article written up on news.o.o which would have propogated over to Forums. Mea culpa! But that doesn't solve the problem completely, because there are users for sure who do not follow the news of openSUSE in any of its various forms. I was a user of openSUSE for several years before I even began to get involved in the community and read the news about openSUSE stuff. So, any news article will not reach all users. The idea of a warning system of some kind as the current version nears EOL is an interesting idea, but there's going to have to be a way to do it without freaking out a user who panics at the sight of any warning or suspects this must be malware (on Windows, this is the kind of warning that malware thrives on.) The warning method would have to be "disable-able" too for administrators if openSUSE is deployed in large environments or support staff will get inundated with needless calls from panicked workers when they already know and have a plan for migration. :-) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org