On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 05:34:16PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > >> > >> This is not about finding solution to upgrade the system (in this case > >> it was enough to force PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_8 for portage). This is > >> about raising awareness that Gentoo is a rolling distribution and that > >> we guarantee users to be able to upgrade their system when they do world > >> upgrades just once a year (remember: in my case the last world upgrade > >> is just 4 months old!). If they cannot upgrade their system without > >> manual intervention, we failed to do our job. > > > Do we have this "guarantee" documented somewhere? I thought I've > > heard six months tossed around. You say one year. It seems > > reasonable to have some sort of guideline like this and try to stick > > with it, at least for @system. > > We do. Summary of 2009-11-09 Council meeting: >
I love digging through old council logs to find "policy" Not sure why others don't feel the same way. > | https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt > | > | Upgrade path for old systems > | ---------------------------- > | Vote (unanimous): The ebuild tree must provide an upgrade path to a > | stable system that hasn't been updated for one year. > | > | Action: leio will start a discussion on gentoo-dev on if and how to > | support upgrading systems that are outdated more than a year.
