[packman] retiring 11.4 in packman

Stefan Botter jsj at jsj.dyndns.org
Wed Mar 23 07:47:34 CET 2016


On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:03:04 +0100
"Carlos E.R." <cerobinson at ieee.org> wrote:

> On 02/19/2016 01:54 PM, koko@ wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:34:43 +0100
> > Olaf Hering <> wrote:
> > 
> >> 11.4 is EOL in OBS.
> >>
> > i dont see any announce for this? could you provide url
> > link regarding this subject? if there no announcement
> > please dont drop support for it.
> 
> <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2014-09/msg00002.html>
> 
> However, as I mentioned on another post, there are still some updates
> done. For instance, the glibc security issue was patched today. The
> situation was clarified in this post by the maintainer:
> 
> +++···········
> NOBODY monitors 11.4 packages for security issues anymore. Some people
> might still submit single pieces but 11.4 has to be taken as
> vulnerable by default meanwhile. This is the big difference betweenn
> "accepting contributions" and "someone is actively checking every
> publically announced security issue and checks if 11.4 is affected
> and eventually fixes it".
> ···········++-
> 
> <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-11/msg00426.html>
> 

Did we come to a conclusion then?
Will we officially stop 11.4 in PMBS on April 11th?

Once again votes please. I will then do a proper announcement.

Thanks,

Stefan
-- 
Stefan Botter zu Hause
Bremen
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