[Ubuntu] Proposal: dropping hardy support

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/10/2012 06:13 AM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As you might know, UbuntuGIS is following DebianGIS development to build
> its packages. Hardy has already 4 years now and building packages for
> this distribution is getting more and more work. Everytime, we have to
> revert a lot of changes from the debianGIS packages since everything is
> deprecated in hardy. As example we have to
>
> - revert dependency versions
> - revert policy update
> - modify the rule file since it was using a too recent debhelper
> - change the compatibility file
> - remove various support in the build process since their dependencies
> are not available in hardy
> - trying to build and get failure!
> - and so on...
>
> My proposal is to drop the hardy support to allow us to focus on recent
> ubuntu releases. The state of the repository will stay as it is now.
> However, we will still provide support for *security fixes*.
>
> Let me know your comments/opinions. I also apologize about this. The end
> of support of hardy was planned for april 2013.... but packaging needs
> time and it's hard to find helpers.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>

I agree that I don't think we need to port any new packages or updated 
to Hardy, just keep the existing packages online as legacy.

+1

Thanks,
Alex