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Re: [DRAFT 4] [debathena-announce] End of life announcement for

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Apr 9 12:00:15 2009

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:59:37 -0400
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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Looks fine.

Greg


On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> Looks fine to me.
> 
> 	-Tim Abbott
> 
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to plan to send this tomorrow morning, so if you have any
> > outstanding tweaks or edits, you should find them by then.
> > 
> > - Evan
> > 
> > Evan Broder wrote:
> > > Reply-To: debathena@mit.edu
> > > To: debathena-announce@mit.edu
> > >
> > > 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. Upgrading from a release after its end
> > > of life is painful, so if you are using Ubuntu Gutsy in any capacity,
> > > you should upgrade now.
> > >
> > > While Ubuntu will continue to provide limited support for Dapper for
> > > another 2 years, we are ending Debathena support for Dapper now because
> > > we believe there are currently no Debathena Dapper installations.
> > > Furthermore, we've found that supporting Dapper slows development
> > > because all new features need to be backported to a 3 year old platform.
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >   
> > 

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