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Re: desupporting old releases

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Laas)
Thu May 10 17:10:32 2001

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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Laas <golem@MIT.EDU>
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I agree with Angie:  since she is providing a useful service, it would
behoove us to give adequate warning before dropping it.  Therefore, I
submit a modified version of Richard's proposal:

* Desupport Netbsd-Cruft-Athena yesterday.
* Desupport Linux-Cruft-Athena 6/15/2001.

--Chris


On 10 May, Angie Kelic wrote:
>>Are there still people who are doing anything
>>in terms of support that they would stop doing if it were desupported?
> 
> Yes, in fact, there are people sitll making sure the security
> patches under 5.2 are up to date.  I'd behappy to tell people
> to put themselves on redhat-watch-list and wish them luck, but
> I think they need somewhat of a warning.
> 
> --Angie

-- 
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possible, by lying very still in a cellar somewhere, to get through a
day without committing a crime.  But only just.  And even then, you
were probably guilty of loitering.
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