Re: [gpsd-dev] Recipe for installing new-enough scons is broken

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> Gpsd does get to select which distros and/or which versions of distros they 
> support.  It would be nice if there were a general policy that was simple and 
> well advertised.

Sorry, I obviously have not been paying close enough attention to this thread.
The request for a simple policy is reasonable.

Here it is: we must support every major Linux distro not more than two
years old, and the last declared long-term-support release if it's
older thah that.

I choose that timeout because Ubuntu and others seem to have settled
on 6-month release cycles and 4 refreshes seems about right to me.  I
could be talked into lengthening or shortening that period by 6 months
if anybody has an argument that we would collect large gains threby.

> I'd expect something like "we support all supported versions of all major 
> distros", with some qualification about needing a volunteer to test on that 
> distro and a liaison to do whatever it takes to actually get the bits into 
> the distro's support/distribution infrastructure if a distro wants to ship 
> gpsd via their package manager.

Yes, I think this is right to aim at.

> Unless you are dropping support for building on wheezy (and Raspberrian and 
> probably others), the directions for setting up wheezy-backports are still 
> needed and will be needed for several more years.

Correct.  Leave them in.  Restore them if they have been removed.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>