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Re: [DRAFT 2.1] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Wed Apr 8 15:05:11 2009
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:04:37 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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Looks good to me.
> Because Ubuntu typically removes unsupported releases from their apt
> repository entirely, you should be sure to upgrade to a newer
> release before April 18.
In draft 1 you said this makes it difficult to upgrade after the
date. Is that right? I don't see why, because I'd expect it to be
taking packages only from the new release; I guess there's
update-manager-core and friends, and I forget if those are always
installed.
In any case from this technical description the practical implication
that upgrading late is hard isn't obvious. You might just say the
latter instead.
Greg
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:36:57AM -0400, Evan Broder wrote:
> Reply-To: debathena@mit.edu
> To: debathena-announce@mit.edu
>
> [Err - whoops, a little too much copy/pasting in the upgrade instructions]
>
> Hi everyone -
> On April 18, 2009, we will be ending support for Debathena on Ubuntu
> 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon and 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. If you are using Debathena
> on either of these two Ubuntu versions, we encourage you to upgrade to
> a later version before April 18.
>
> We are ending the support period for Debathena on Gutsy at the same time
> as Ubuntu ends support of Gutsy. Because Ubuntu typically removes
> unsupported releases from their apt repository entirely, you should be
> sure to upgrade to a newer release before April 18.
>
> While Ubuntu will continue to support Dapper for another 2 months on
> desktops and 2 years on servers, we are choosing to end Debathena
> support early. Dapper is the oldest release that we currently support by
> almost a year, and it is showing its age. It lacks many features which
> have made Debathena development easy, and in some cases, possible.
> Furthermore, it is our belief that nobody has installed or used
> Debathena on Dapper for over 6 months.
>
> For both Dapper and Gutsy, Ubuntu only supports direct upgrades to
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. Instructions for that process are available
> at <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>. If you would like
> to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, you should first upgrade to Hardy
> and then upgrade to Intrepid.
>
> Please note: upgrading from one Ubuntu release to another can cause
> Debathena to get disabled in your apt configuration. After upgrading
> from one release to another, be sure to follow the directions at
> <http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/oyRB> to re-enable Debathena.
>
> As always feel free to contact the Debathena team at debathena@mit.edu
> if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.
>
> Thanks,
> - Evan
> for the SIPB Debathena Team
>
>
>
>
