[yocto] Criteria for proposing a host distribution supported

[Laszlo Papp]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com>wrote:

> Personally speaking, what Paul said.
>

I already replied why I think it is more blocking than helping certain part
of the community.


> We don't "support" any other
> unstable/rolling distribution such as Rawhide, Debian Sid/Unstable,
> etc either as they routinely change daily and therefore the testing
> that needs to be done to classify it as supported would have to be
> done daily.
>
> Note that the warning is entirely advisory, you can feel free to
> ignore it.  I do so on one of my machines which runs Debian Unstable.
> You can even disable it by setting SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS = "" in your
> configuration.  Supported here means "in a normal configuration we've
> verified that it works", nothing more.
>

This is not different for Arch, especially with ARM (not the architecture)
and similar helpers for grabbing older versions. As I wrote in a previous
email of this thread: it is the matter of CI node documentation. Not to
mention, it is easier to grab certain bugfixes and so forth in Arch due to
the quick integration of those. If you try to do that with a stable
distribution, you will end up having troubles when waiting for a fix, or
going yourself to fix it.

Laszlo
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