Self-Introduction: Jonas Pasche
Eric Rostetter
rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jan 16 20:07:11 UTC 2004
Quoting Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net>:
> > * What is the errata policy for The Fedora Legacy Project?
>
> It's "update" and not errata first.
Changed.
> For FC releases, we will follow a 1-2-3 and
> out policy. FC1 is released, then FC2. When FC2 releases, FC1 is no
> longer supported by RH. Legacy then supports FC1. FC3 releases and RH
> drops FC2. Legacy picks up FC2, and FC1 becomes deprecated. FC4
> releases, RH drops FC3, Legacy picks up FC3, Legacy drops FC1, and FC2
> becomes deprecated. This will insure roughly 1.5 years of updates
> total for any FC release. When Legacy drops a release, backports are
> still accepted, but they neither get Legacy keysigned, nor get QAd.
> Perhaps we'll have a seperate "unsupported" repository. This needs
> more discussion, but can wait.
Can anyone summarize this is a short, easy to understand way for the FAQ?
And how official is that last part about accepting backports after the
support is ended?
> > * What version of RHL/FC are supported?
>
> RHL 7.[123], 8.0. In the future, we'll support RHL9, FC1, etc...
There is no repository for 7.1, so I'm not putting that in yet.
If someone creates/populates a 7.1 repo, we can revisit it.
> > * Where can I get more info on apt/yum?
>
> Specific Legacy related info, or just general info?
Both actually. :)
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Eric Rostetter
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