State of 7.2/8.0 in Fedora Legacy

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>:

> A better way of doing this would be to offer some unofficial advice that
> people should use 7.3 packages if they want to risk it.

I don't think that is better.  And it would have to be advice to rebuild
the src rpm packages, not to use the binary rpm packages.

> Another option might be to call 7.2 and 8.0 unsupported, continue to
> support the uploading and QA of packages for those releases, but *not*
> to delay releases for 7.3 and 9.

I kind of see that as really what the first proposal was about, though it
didn't say it exactly/explicitely.

> That way the really important stuff can
> get fixed by those who care, and it doesn't greatly affect the rest of
> the project (beyond the extra admin work required to rebuild and issue
> extra advisories)

It's certainly worth discussion.

> Dominic.

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Eric Rostetter