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docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages

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The repositories containing them are usually offered with lower
guarantees, so we don't consider them when it comes to figuring
out the minimum targeted version of our dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support
for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS).
Within each major release, only the most recent minor release is considered.
are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian
LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from
later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the
most recent minor release is considered.
For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux,
the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and