From fbf8c96be3eff5f4d9fa7e7f5d989c54e62dd294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:03:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: build-platforms: Clarify stance on minor releases and backports MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits: 2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages 78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter. The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling out some rules that were likely already being implicitly enforced. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> --- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index 6b8496c430..26028756d0 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro -are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS). +are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS); +the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from later +releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the most +recent minor release is considered. For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux, the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and -- 2.30.2