[bt-devel] Bug-a-thon II (support lifetime)

[Jonathan Marsden]

Jaak Ristioja wrote:

> I think the main reason for not supporting very old versions is that for
> us they are difficult to support, so we should encourage packagers to
> use more recent versions.

No problem there.  I have 2.4.rc1 downloaded but not officially packaged
yet :)

The issue is more with getting "more recent versions" accepted into
official repositories, where ordinary end users of Linux distributions
will automatically be notified of their availability and be able to
update to them.  Doing that, without requiring the end user to add a
non-standard PPA or other unofficial repository to their set of
repositories, is decidedly non-trivial.

Jonathan