[X2Go-User] Launchpad cleanup

[Stefan Baur]

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Am 24.09.2015 um 12:09 schrieb Mike Gabriel:

> Actually, Robert got me correctly. I have removed the build recipes
> from X2Go's Launchpad configuration _and_ remove the packages from
> the PPAs.
> 
> As a community project, we don't support non-support Linux distros.
> If anyone needs X2Go builds for old operating systems, there are
> two possibilities (at least).

I don't see a reason why we should remove the packages that were
already built.  Not providing new packages, not caring about
dependency issues etc., not providing security fixes, ... for
unsupported distributions/releases is one thing, but deleting what
already was there?  Do we really have a good reason to annoy users
like that (space constraints on our servers or something?)?

Think of a user that is stuck with an unsupported distribution/release
for some reason or other.  Do you really want to punish that user for
not keeping a local copy of the repository?

Doesn't sound like a smart move to me ...

If we're not limited by disk space or something similar, I would
suggest moving such packages to a repo that is named
<releasename>-unsupported or -outdated or -archive.
At least for the time that the main OS repository is still available
somewhere, too (think snapshots.debian.org).

- -Stefan
X2Go Project/Community Coordinator

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