On 16 October 2010 13:33, Luca Berra <bl...@vodka.it> wrote: > > I maintain some package that has multiple spec and initscript hacks to > allow upgrading since 2005LE to current cooker (i.e. postfix). I really > believe it is too far and that some should be pruned. > The question is, how long should we maintain suck > hacks in packages?
2005LE??? even in MandrivaLinux, you should have care only about 2008.0, 2009.1, 2010.x, CS4 & MES5 See http://www2.mandriva.com/en/support/lifecycle/ As for Mageia, I would say we shouldn't care about the past but for the smooth upgrade path. Aka we shouldn't care if packages aren't backportable on anything older than 2010.1 but we should care about updating mdv 2009.1/2010.x/CS4/MES5 to mageia which should help packaging quite a lot. My 2 €cents
