For how long should we retain Hardy support in our PPAs?

[Martin Pool]

On 3 May 2011 03:29, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> On 5/1/2011 12:02 AM, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> For how long should we retain Hardy support in our PPAs?
>>
>> My motivator for posing this question now is that I've just run into a
>> situation with preparing bzr 2.4b2 packages where I need to add a
>> backport of quilt to the bzr builddeps PPA and perform additional
>> debian/rules tweakage because of hardy's non-support for debian source
>> format 3.0.
>>
>> I'm guessing we're not quite ready to drop hardy support, given it's an
>> LTS, but I would like to open the discussion of when we would feel it's
>> appropriate.
>>
>> Max.
>>
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> I would say as long as we are considering backporting via SRUs, which
> I'm guessing is ~ as long as it is supported.

Hardy was originally on 1.3.1 and so isn't going to get updates of 2.x
through SRUs, at least not in the way things normally work.

I would be ok leaving Hardy on 2.3 unless/until someone specifically
requests 2.4.

The payoff is pretty low compared to say doing lucid srus.

Martin