On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 07:27:51PM +0900, Jing Luo wrote: > Let me clarify. My point was that it's not worth your effort to support old > PHP versions that are already not supported by PHP's developers.
And I made a point that it is, and I've seen no counter-arguments. > Do FSF admins "want" to upgrade the VMs or do they want to stay on old > distros? They do upgrade them (BTW at least part of that work is done by Savannah volunteers rather than FSF staff). > > These days, to continue to support old PHP versions is incomparably > > easier than to support the new releases, so we'll gain little if we > > stop supporting them. > > By all means, drop support for PHP 8.2 :) I'm sorry, I don't understand. > > The most important "downstream" are private local instances > > of testers. for example, occasionally I run Savane on a machine > > that simply can't boot Trisquel 9. > > That's unfortunate. Are you unable to acquire a no non-free firmware machine > that works with newer versions of Trisquel? The reasons don't matter. what matters is, quite a few more man-hours were contributed to Savane because it could run on top of older releases of its dependencies. > My mistake. This [1] is probably something else. That file does nothing substantial. the feature needs more. After a closer look, I admit that Sergey's version may support it to some degree, but I see no relevant controls in my Puszcza package.
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