[yocto] [OE-core] RFC: dropping official support for Debian 8 / Opensuse 42.3

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

> Fedora 28 is also unsupported (but will be the basis of CentOS 8).

Yesterday I upgraded my host Fedora 29 to Fedora 30. With Fedora, all
clear. F30 is the newest release, F31 is in preparation. F28 support
ceased to exist one month after F30 was released. The algorithm is the
following: Support ceased to exist for F(XY) after a month from the
official date F(XY+2) was introduced/released. The introduction cycle
for new release is 6 months. YOCTO wise. ;-)

Hope this clears the confusion for Fedora distro (official first
relative of kernel.org, which usually finishes testing cycle for
kernel.org)!

Zoran
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 8:04 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 09:37:31PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that both Debian 8 and OpenSuse 42.3 are end-of-life and no longer
> > formally supported, we think it's time to drop them from the supported
> > distribution list.
>
> Debian 8 is still LTS-supported for a year, unless there is urgency to
> drop support for it the right time for dropping would be after 2.8
> (2.9 release and Debian 8 LTS EOL will both be in Q2 2020).
>
> Should OpenSuse be dropped, or just the version upgraded to 15.1?
>
> Fedora 28 is also unsupported (but will be the basis of CentOS 8).
>
> > Initially this involves removing them from the
> > SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS list in Poky, at some point during this cycle we
> > may remove those distributions from the Yocto Project autobuilder to
> > add more workers for other supported distributions.
> >
> > It is expected that the next release will probably work on those two
> > distributions, there are no plans to do new and exciting things
> > dropping these unsupported distributions enables -- like increasing
> > the minimum Python version to 3.5 until after the 2.8 release in
> > October.
>
> CentOS 7 is based on Fedora 19 from 2013.
>
> This is the oldest currently supported distribution, and when to remove
> support for it (replacing it with the not yet existing CentOS 8) should
> IMHO be part of this discussion.
>
> >...
> > Ross
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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