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Hm, I think that the lifetime of the LTS of debian or centos are just too long for some projects, and I can only partly blame the projects. Backporting fixes i
by tetha 11y ago
Hm, I think that the lifetime of the LTS of debian or centos are just too long for some projects, and I can only partly blame the projects.
Backporting fixes into a 5 or 10 year old version of the software isn't fun. Or, for example you could not port to python 3 fully and drop python 2 if you wanted to support centos 7 easily.
It's messy, but I'd rather support removing the packages and probably even languages or python packages from the distros repos so you're geared towards effort immediately, instead of installing elasticsearch and then ending up vulnerable.
- vbernat 11y agoElasticsearch 1.0.0 was released less than 2 years ago. A project with more than 100 M$ of funding may be able to maintain stable branches for users who cannot cope with the non-trivial upgrades to more recent versions.
- vacri 11y agoPeople want LTS systems - it's why LTS has become a thing in recent years. It's not Debian and Centos forcing it on the community, it's the community asking for it.