On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, Roumen Petrov wrote:

Hi All

Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 16 Jan 2024 21:11, Brad Smith wrote:
libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out archs

OpenBSD stopped supporting the last non-shared arch 8 years ago
and stopped supporting a.out 10.5 years ago.
This cannot be reason to drop support.
For instance RHEL was release in 2011 and is still supported.

This seems like a strong argument, but there are other factors.

A strong reason to stop supporting a target/version is if it's existence interferes with maintenance/development and there is no reasonable means available to verify that the support still works.

Support which is not periodically tested likely does not work any more.

Bob
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