ANN: Closing AC

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

=?UTF-8?B?TWFyY2luIEtyw7Ns?= wrote:
> > I can't see what's  
> > bothering ppl bout dying ac and th. Windows 98 and 95 and ME died as well,  
> > other distros also make new versions and move on forward.
> 
> For me personally if we will switch to "awlays in developement" distro 
> it would be easier to:
> 
> 1) Maintain my machines, by simply doing poldek --upgrade-dist out of 
> stable tree. Occasionally there will be need to do some manual upgrades 
> like from postgres 8.0 to 8.1 which requires database dump/restore. Now 

But if you leave one machine not upgraded, after some time it may become
not upgradeable. Because of missing triggers, package splits, missing
obsoletes, etc.

> lets assume that we will stay with current distro politics + we will 
> release new version every year. So once a year I'll probably have to 
> reinstall all the machines because version Z was released and X has 
> reached an EOL.

What for machines that are not upgradeable N -> N+1? Eg. because of their
configuration and bugs present in year N+1 release. Will rel. N+2 support
N -> N+2 upgrade ?
Eg. some X11 version (or any other commonly used library) is unusable for
them, suggested solution is to use previous version with bugfixes?

> 2) Maintain distro itself. Now if there is some security bug it should 
> be fixed in Ra, Ac, Th. With "always in developement" we'll 
> prepare/commit/test/build fixed packages only once.

Yes, leaving the work for machine admins is simpler.

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