Drop support for Debian 10/11 #182

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joshuaboniface · 2024-05-03T02:03:04-04:00

joshuaboniface commented

2024-05-03 02:03:04 -04:00

PVC currently supports Debian version 10, 11, and 12. However 10 is reaching end of life (without ELTS) in mid-2024, and thus should be retired. Dropping Debian 11 at the same time is also feasible, leaving Debian 12 with another ~4 years of support as the only supported distribution version. This should be fairly trivial from a code perspective, and would open up several new possibilities for enhancements (e.g. using pystemd for systemd integration and cleaning up some legacy code handlers in the pvcworkerd system).

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PVC currently supports Debian version 10, 11, and 12. However 10 is reaching end of life (without ELTS) in mid-2024, and thus should be retired. Dropping Debian 11 at the same time is also feasible, leaving Debian 12 with another ~4 years of support as the only supported distribution version. This should be fairly trivial from a code perspective, and would open up several new possibilities for enhancements (e.g. using `pystemd` for systemd integration and cleaning up some legacy code handlers in the `pvcworkerd` system). Creating issue for tracking.

joshuaboniface changed title from ~~Drop support for Debian 10~~ to Drop support for Debian 10/11

2024-05-03 02:03:10 -04:00

joshuaboniface commented

2024-05-03 02:04:42 -04:00

To avoid compromising un-upgraded installations, the first step should be to disable future code updates to the Debian 10 and 11 repositories, thus ensuring that future versions are not pushed to those repository versions.