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Re: Dapper Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Mon Mar 9 15:52:42 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:51:35 -0400
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Although the debathena support for Dapper and Gutsy predates my
involvement, the course of action you propose sounds sane to me.
-Bill
On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> While I'm sending mail, I'd like to propose an end-of-life for
> Debathena
> Dapper support.
>
> It's old, it's crufty, and most importantly, it's not uncommon these
> days that it impedes our ability to write new features.
>
> I'd specifically like to propose that we EOL Debathena Dapper at the
> same time we EOL Debathena Gutsy: namely, when Jaunty comes out.
>
> If we want to do this, we should probably send mail to
> debathena-announce nowish. I'll try to draft such an e-mail soon.
>
> - Evan
