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docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages
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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for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
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for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
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version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
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version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
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first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
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first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
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are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS).
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are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian
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Within each major release, only the most recent minor release is considered.
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LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from
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later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the
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most recent minor release is considered.
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For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux,
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For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux,
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the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and
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the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and
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