Morning all, to shorten and summarize the discussion.... Am Samstag, 12. Dezember 2015, 19:08:36 schrieb Richard Brown:
it's what is discussed here, only for 13.1, no reason to start again a 32/64 war... Leap 64 bits is the obvious successor, but may be later
Yes, but Axel is pushing for a broadening of scope, encouraging repo maintainers to do extra work to keep maintaining their repos for 13.1 after the end of 13.1's official support...
First of all I'm asking not to remove 13.1 as repo - whether the build target is called 13.1 or Evergreen, I honestly dont care. (in the larger context, if 13.1 is the last evergreen as mentioned here, it would not make sence the have a separate Evergreen target)
and I'm pointing out that it's easier said, than done, and trying to give Axel and everyone else the background information why that is a lot of work, possible more than Axel realised before he made his request
Wolfgang and his team did an excellent job, and I'm confident they will continue to do so. What really the end of lifecycle for 13.1 will be - no one knows yet (patches for 11.4 are still accepted). But we should not give away tons of packages by just removing 13.1 from the repos. (IMO, that was always the weakness in Evergreen) As we saw from the discussion, there is a need to keep the 32bit release alive, and not everyone can or will uprade the hardware. New 64 bit hardware is always more expensive that already paid 32 bit hardware, not even considering resource usage. Regarding the question what happens if software is updated to version that will simply not build properly on Evergreen: Probably a decision on the use case: If you eagerly need it, you may need to patch yoursefl. Or use the last binaries available, that will mostly serve the job. Cheers Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org