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[170.10.133.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cs14-20020a170906dc8e00b0072b8311a17dsi1937317ejc.310.2022.08.05.08.20.30 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.133.124 as permitted sender) client-ip=170.10.133.124; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b="ejeEFG/0"; spf=pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.133.124 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=berrange@redhat.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1659712829; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=4tbOtoX+okfrNQpn+JtCKcqsZHP3f6wk1WRWkOWk6Cs=; b=ejeEFG/0PtraZNBfq5XLyDf02Z45R3Uo0YqfM+wuBARI3NiIrWti/loga4L1eK1XQIeI2Q 1PE1wtAWlBY57ckYoY7eOzkz2rIGcwZ4DdGPaARAv+GqxpYYJZbCfQa4yMVfVdjutCHdot B32uuunXvs4m6dDqJo2LM4e5WNRChts= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-632-m06YNuqTOc-EoHGLVZ7PNg-1; Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:20:26 -0400 X-MC-Unique: m06YNuqTOc-EoHGLVZ7PNg-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB39D101A58D; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 15:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain.com (unknown [10.39.194.117]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D532026D4C; Fri, 5 Aug 2022 15:20:21 +0000 (UTC) From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, Beraldo Leal , Peter Maydell , =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Thomas Huth , Richard Henderson , =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, Cornelia Huck , Gerd Hoffmann , =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= , qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= , David Hildenbrand , Paolo Bonzini , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , Andrea Bolognani Subject: [PULL 1/6] docs: build-platforms: Clarify stance on minor releases and backports Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 16:20:09 +0100 Message-Id: <20220805152014.135768-2-berrange@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20220805152014.135768-1-berrange@redhat.com> References: <20220805152014.135768-1-berrange@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-TUID: qTNXpkGeTUUL From: Andrea Bolognani These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits: 2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages 78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter. The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling out some rules that were likely already being implicitly enforced. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé --- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index 6b8496c430..26028756d0 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro -are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS). +are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS); +the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from later +releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the most +recent minor release is considered. For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux, the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and -- 2.37.1