Dropping Debian Stretch support

Dropping Debian Stretch support

[Anton Mikanovich]

Hi all,

Debian Stretch state was moved to EOL long ago (since July 2020), so we are
going to end its support inside Isar.
This will allow us to get rid of many hacks inside Isar core and single
example packages.

Did anyone against dropping Stretch support?

Re: Dropping Debian Stretch support

[Henning Schild]

Am Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:24:13 +0300
schrieb Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>:

> Hi all,
> 
> Debian Stretch state was moved to EOL long ago (since July 2020), so
> we are going to end its support inside Isar.
> This will allow us to get rid of many hacks inside Isar core and
> single example packages.
> 
> Did anyone against dropping Stretch support?

The contrary, full support from my side!

Henning

Re: Dropping Debian Stretch support

[Roberto A. Foglietta]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:03, Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> Am Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:24:13 +0300
> schrieb Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Debian Stretch state was moved to EOL long ago (since July 2020), so
> > we are going to end its support inside Isar.
> > This will allow us to get rid of many hacks inside Isar core and
> > single example packages.
> >
> > Did anyone against dropping Stretch support?
>
> The contrary, full support from my side!
>

Supporting a distribution like Stretch which is End-Of-Life since July
2020 slow down the development of ISAR project in many ways:

- prevents to adopt solutions not supported by Stretch
- pollute the project with code/configs that cannot be developed further
- increase the number of tests for validating the product

The correct approach in this case is to fork or branch the project and
develop the fork/branch independently. Time to time when necessary
some changes could be backported from the ISAR to the fork/branch.
Moreover, this approach allows the business and/or management to have
a specific view about the effort needed to support that branch/fork.
This last aspect is very important for computing correctly the
cost/value of supporting a legacy platform.

I hope this helps, R-