On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Adrian Schröter wrote:
After the discussion from last month around the discontinued distribution handling, here's a proposal how to handle them in future.
"Discontinued distributions" are the distributions, which receive no regular security updates anymore.
These distributions stay accessible below DISCONTINUED name space. This means SUSE:SL-10.0 is accessible as DISCONTINUED:SUSE:SL-10.0 for example.
We have currently the following distributions below DISCONTINUED names space:
SUSE Linux 10.0 SUSE Linux 10.1 Fedora 6 Mandriva 2006
We will remove the official projects and all repositories building against them in two weeks (if we are not forced to do it earlier due to disc storage problems).
The official 10.1 ftp tree from ftp.opensuse.org will get removed end of the year.
Your suggestions sounds good. Will it be accessible through the DISCONTINUED:SUSE:SL-10.1 or 10.0 repository tree then? This would allow to use the old systems as they are used now, but everybody would explicitely need to select a "DISCONTINUED" path. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)