On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:25 AM Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In terms of the policy, I think it should be that our latest LTS > release must be available. If they have other packages available that > is fine but the latest LTS must be one of them. In terms of the types > of exceptions I could envision, perhaps we will discover it is really > difficult to package the latest LTS for certain older distros and so > they need to provide an older version. I would be OK with an exception > like this but I would prefer to have the packagers raise it to us. > > Mark
I'm not opposed to this, but it might be a little tricky for OS distros that freeze package versions. Debian for example. I haven't checked what the current stable (bullseye) has, but I'm still on the oldstable (buster) which supplies 1.10.x. I'm running a recent trunk build though, heh heh :-) I'm not proposing an exception (and I'm not a packager); rather I'm suggesting to consider a package compliant as long as it was a supported LTS release at the time of the packager's version freeze and security issues continue to be patched. Thoughts? Nathan
