* [PATCH] doc: HACKING: drop bit about Debian 9.x (stretch)
@ 2023-07-13 5:40 Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2023-07-13 5:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
It's oldoldstable, by now; just refer to Debian stable as
the primary but keep LTS distros in mind because stuff like
CentOS 7.x needs to remain supported.
---
HACKING | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 1070d3ff..df68b54d 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ This includes folks on slow connections and ancient browsers which
may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands.
Only depend on Free Software packages which exist in the "main"
-section of Debian "stable" distribution. That is Debian 9.x
-("stretch") as of this writing, but "oldstable" (8.x, "jessie")
-remains supported for v1 inboxes.
+section of Debian "stable" distribution; but continue to support
+any LTS distros within their support window.
In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than
the shiny new.
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