[csw-maintainers] Solaris 8 packages in named releases

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hello maintainers,
>
> We are no longer building for Solaris 8, but we're still dragging along the
> last Solaris 8 snapshot. It's present in the dublin release as well as in
> kiel. I propose that we keep the Solaris 8 packages in dublin, but we drop
> them from kiel.
>
> The reason is that if we tell the world “hello world, we made a new
> release!”, and there is a whole bunch of Solaris 8 packages, it will look
> like as if we have done something in the Solaris 8 area, while we wouldn't
> actually have. If, on the other hand, there is no "5.8" directory, it will
> be obvious to users that they have to use an older release to get the
> Solaris 8 packages. This should help people set the right expectations.
>
> Thoughts?

Drop 5.8 from Kiel and plan for removal of 5.9 in Bratislava.
-- 
Peter