[ATrpms-users] How much longer will FC7 be supported

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:45:52PM -0700, Javier Perez wrote:
> >On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0700, Gabe Rubin wrote:
> >> Now that FC9 has been released, I was wondering how much longer you
> >> will maintain support for FC7?
> >
> >Even if I wanted I can't really support F7 longer than mid June when
> >Fedora will stop supporting it. E.g. the moment the upstream vendor
> >drops the ball you either have to drop it, too, or you need to become
> >the vendor (e.g. see the Fedora Legacy project).
> 
> Hi
> Can we then trust a mid-June End Of Line?
> There are some of us who stayed at F7 and now are moving to F9 and at least in my
> case I am moving one system out of 4 first to test it out and make sure there are
> no gotcha's before moving the rest. The first piece of advice on  F9 release notes
> is to make sure to be fully updated before upgrading since it makes things easier...
> JP

The precise date is 13.06.08. But probably noone will be installing F7
or doing upgrades to the latest security updates shortly before that,
so I don't think ATrpms will be building *new* packages for F7 until then,
unless some major like an openssl bug is disclosed.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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