On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:15:01PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
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(a)redhat.com>
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docs/platforms.rst | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/platforms.rst b/docs/platforms.rst
index 8c281afebd..90f14b02e8 100644
--- a/docs/platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/platforms.rst
@@ -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.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
Regards,
Daniel
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