[Koha-devel] Debian 9 LTS EOL

[dcook at prosentient.com.au]

Sounds like a useful discussion to have! I know I rely on https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations when I give advice about OS support, and I think a lot of new Koha adopters trust it as well. So good to make sure we’re putting out the right information. 

 

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From: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2022 10:03 AM
To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
Cc: Koha Devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Debian 9 LTS EOL

 

On Jenkins, which is what the dashboard pulls that info from, the 18.04 task is run only so stable branches know in advance if backports could break support. I actually removed the 18.04 from the 'Suported' panel for master in Jenkins.

 

We should discuss actions on this. I think before the 22.05 release we decided to drop support for older distros, but as Mason managed to have all packaging sorted (new Mojolicious, etc) we mistakenly kept the 'support'.

 

 

El mié, 27 jul 2022 20:35, <dcook at prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au> > escribió:

That’s good to know!

 

Looking at https://dashboard.koha-community.org/, it looks like we still have CI running for Debian 8 and Debian 9 as well as Ubuntu 16 and Ubuntu 18. Perhaps those should all be retired?

 

I suppose we could drop Debian 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 off https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations in any case since they’re not “recommendations” anymore? Actually the wiki looks pretty outdated/inconsistent with the dashboard…

 

David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

Suite 7.03

6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Online: 02 8005 0595

 

From: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com <mailto:tomascohen at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2022 11:36 PM
To: David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au> >
Cc: Koha Devel <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org <mailto:koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org> >
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Debian 9 LTS EOL

 

I'm pretty sure we don't support Debian 9 anymore. And Ubuntu 18.04 is in the same situation.

 

Using those old MariaDB and MySQL versions is problematic and thus discouraged.

 

El mié, 27 jul 2022 2:15, <dcook at prosentient.com.au <mailto:dcook at prosentient.com.au> > escribió:

Hi all,

 

While commenting on Bug 28267, I decided to review what versions of Debian we support, and I noticed that Debian 9 (Stretch) actually met it’s LTS EOL on 2022-06-30, so it probably makes sense for us to drop support for it at some point in the near future too.

 

Debian 10 (Buster) will be regular EOL in the next couple of months, and then it will get a LTS period of another couple extra years. (Interesting to note that Debian LTS isn’t actually handled by the Debian Security team but rather a separate group of volunteers.)

 

It looks like Ubuntu 18.04 will end its “standard support” in April 2023, so we nearly have 1 more year on it. 

 

It looks like Debian 9 (Stretch) and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) both have MariaDB 10.1.x, so I suppose we can’t drop support for that DB version until both OSes are no longer supported. 

 

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

 

David Cook

Senior Software Engineer

Prosentient Systems

Suite 7.03

6a Glen St

Milsons Point NSW 2061

Australia

 

Office: 02 9212 0899

Online: 02 8005 0595

 

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