[csw-maintainers] Minor web site change?

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Thu Jun 25 17:36:52 CEST 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:39:45AM +0100, Gary Law wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
> > Why? Usually it is no different packaging for Solaris 9 than for
> > Solaris 8. Why drop Solaris 8 without the need? If there is *any*
> > problem on Solaris 8 it is of course ok to just release for Solaris 9.
> 
> The problem for me is testing. Rolling out something that compiles is
> all very well and good, but if it's not tested on Sol8 then it might
> be buggy, and might in fact be worse than the old Sol8 version we have
> in the archive. Finding the hardware/virtualisation kit for testing
> for Sol8 is hard enough now, and it's only going to get worse.

for people who run 8, even having "untested packages" is better than
"having no packages".



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