[csw-maintainers] Completely drop Solaris8?

[William Bonnet]

Hi

>>> My take on it is: lets freeze the Solaris 8 trail, but keep it as a legacy
>>> trail for those still running Solaris 8. Bug fixes to that trail is only
>>> done if the maintainer chooses so.
>>>       
>> +1
>>     
>
> another +1 
>   

We actually have a loooootttt of software which are available on Solaris 
8 and not yet released as stable. So I would say, let's do one last 
"stable" supporting Solaris 8, then freeze it.

After this freeze, if people need Solaris 8 packages, i would support 
the idea to provide missing GAR description instead of providing 
packages for this legacy version. What i mean is that our policy might 
be the following

If you need a package update for Solaris 8, please use GAR and rebuilt 
it by your self
If it is not in GAR, then we will add build description, but not provide 
package.

Thoughts about this ?

cheers
W.

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