[Ubuntu] Proposal: dropping hardy support

[Pirmin Kalberer]

Am Dienstag, 10. April 2012, 09.13:41 schrieb Alan Boudreault:
> 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*.

+1

Pirmin

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