From: Eric Wong Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 05:40:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: HACKING: drop bit about Debian 9.x (stretch) X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c99ccad473d275460741ee2462dc7ccbedcb858b;p=thirdparty%2Fpublic-inbox.git doc: HACKING: drop bit about Debian 9.x (stretch) It's oldoldstable, by now; just refer to Debian stable as the primary but keep LTS distros in mind because stuff like CentOS 7.x needs to remain supported. --- diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 1070d3ff3..df68b54d0 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ This includes folks on slow connections and ancient browsers which may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands. Only depend on Free Software packages which exist in the "main" -section of Debian "stable" distribution. That is Debian 9.x -("stretch") as of this writing, but "oldstable" (8.x, "jessie") -remains supported for v1 inboxes. +section of Debian "stable" distribution; but continue to support +any LTS distros within their support window. In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than the shiny new.