On 11/22/2016 05:51 PM, Simon Lees wrote:
Maybe we can take a half step instead.
Keep the repo's enabled but advise maintainers that they are not obliged to keep SLE-11 building if it requires additional effort on there behalf, in that way the people that do care about having package X available on SLE-11 and that are willing to make it work can do so. Packages that are unresolvable, known to have bugs that stop them working in a significant manner or will have security issues under SLE-11 should be disabled for build on SLE-11 with the reason documented somewhere so people know what it takes to get re enabled. We could extend this further to packages not building (when someone branches the package its easy enough to see why it was disabled). These packages could then be reenabled for build if someone steps up to fix them.
If we get to a point in the future where say 75% (or any other agreed number) of packages are disabled or failing to build we could then question again whether its worth dropping the repo as a whole.
Cheers
This sounds extremely reasonable and better to me than actively removing all SLE11 compatibility workarounds, at least at the present time. -- Jason Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org