Re: [libvirt] Time to drop support for Debian 8 (Jessie)?
On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 15:50 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 04:39:37PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Note that I would not have a problem with adding a Debian sid or
> Debian testing configuration (but see capacity): what I'm against is
> specifically installing Debian testing and calling it "Debian 10",
> because that's just not correct.
Just because it is a pre-release doesn't make it not "Debian 10".
It just means it hasn't been declared fully stable yet, but that's
no worse than the unstable distros IMHO.
On a Debian 9 machine:
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
...
On a fully up-to-date Debian testing machine:
$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
ID=debian
...
So clearly the Debian project doesn't consider it to be something
that can be called "Debian 10" (or even "Debian 10 alpha") quite
yet.
Unstable distributions are in a different ballpark entirely, since
they're designed to be in a constant state of flux and expectations
for users are clearly defined accordingly.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization