Dropping support for squeeze and precise
I'm very much considering dropping support for Debian squeeze and Ubuntu precise (12.04LTS) from the packages come the late-May release of Koha 3.20. This has come to something of a head here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13642#c58 where it'd probably be an inordinate amount of work to backport the required package, however it should just work on newer distros. It's also notable that Debian's jessie release is currently planned for April 25, so we'll continue to have two supported versions of this. So, while I'd like to ask if this is going to really ruin anyone's day, unless there's a particularly compelling reason, this is more or less a foregone conclusion now as it's reached the point where it's risking holding back features in Koha. So yeah, go and plan to upgrade to trusty (14.04) if you're on Ubuntu or wheezy if you're on Debian (or jessie if you're keen, though I haven't really tested the packaging on that yet.) -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
+1 David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007
-----Original Message----- From: koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel- bounces@lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Robin Sheat Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015 1:52 PM To: koha-devel Subject: [Koha-devel] Dropping support for squeeze and precise
I'm very much considering dropping support for Debian squeeze and Ubuntu precise (12.04LTS) from the packages come the late-May release of Koha 3.20.
This has come to something of a head here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13642#c58 where it'd probably be an inordinate amount of work to backport the required package, however it should just work on newer distros.
It's also notable that Debian's jessie release is currently planned for April 25, so we'll continue to have two supported versions of this.
So, while I'd like to ask if this is going to really ruin anyone's day, unless there's a particularly compelling reason, this is more or less a foregone conclusion now as it's reached the point where it's risking holding back features in Koha.
So yeah, go and plan to upgrade to trusty (14.04) if you're on Ubuntu or wheezy if you're on Debian (or jessie if you're keen, though I haven't really tested the packaging on that yet.)
-- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
+1 Best regards, Magnus libriotech.no On 7 April 2015 at 05:51, Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
I'm very much considering dropping support for Debian squeeze and Ubuntu precise (12.04LTS) from the packages come the late-May release of Koha 3.20.
This has come to something of a head here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13642#c58 where it'd probably be an inordinate amount of work to backport the required package, however it should just work on newer distros.
It's also notable that Debian's jessie release is currently planned for April 25, so we'll continue to have two supported versions of this.
So, while I'd like to ask if this is going to really ruin anyone's day, unless there's a particularly compelling reason, this is more or less a foregone conclusion now as it's reached the point where it's risking holding back features in Koha.
So yeah, go and plan to upgrade to trusty (14.04) if you're on Ubuntu or wheezy if you're on Debian (or jessie if you're keen, though I haven't really tested the packaging on that yet.)
-- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
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+10 I'll put it on the agenda for the next dev meeting. Even if 12.04 is supported until 2017, I think having it supported until early 2016 by 3.18 is fair enough for users. El 7/4/2015 3:00 a. m., "Magnus Enger" <magnus@enger.priv.no> escribió:
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Best regards, Magnus libriotech.no
On 7 April 2015 at 05:51, Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
I'm very much considering dropping support for Debian squeeze and Ubuntu precise (12.04LTS) from the packages come the late-May release of Koha 3.20.
This has come to something of a head here: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=13642#c58 where it'd probably be an inordinate amount of work to backport the required package, however it should just work on newer distros.
It's also notable that Debian's jessie release is currently planned for April 25, so we'll continue to have two supported versions of this.
So, while I'd like to ask if this is going to really ruin anyone's day, unless there's a particularly compelling reason, this is more or less a foregone conclusion now as it's reached the point where it's risking holding back features in Koha.
So yeah, go and plan to upgrade to trusty (14.04) if you're on Ubuntu or wheezy if you're on Debian (or jessie if you're keen, though I haven't really tested the packaging on that yet.)
-- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
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Tomas Cohen Arazi schreef op wo 08-04-2015 om 07:43 [-0300]:
I'll put it on the agenda for the next dev meeting. Even if 12.04 is supported until 2017, I think having it supported until early 2016 by 3.18 is fair enough for users.
Yep, I don't intend to remove compatibility from existing releases, just new ones. BTW, release maintainers should be particularly careful about introducing new dependencies (which we try to avoid anyway, but it doesn't hurt to be even more aware.) Slightly unrelated: When is the next dev meeting? Is there an ical of these sorts of things that someone maintains? -- Robin Sheat Catalyst IT Ltd. ✆ +64 4 803 2204 GPG: 5FA7 4B49 1E4D CAA4 4C38 8505 77F5 B724 F871 3BDF
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