The repositories containing them are usually offered with lower
guarantees, so we don't consider them when it comes to figuring
out the minimum targeted version of our dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
---
 docs/platforms.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/platforms.rst b/docs/platforms.rst
index 8c281afebd..90f14b02e8 100644
--- a/docs/platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/platforms.rst
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support
 for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
 version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
 first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
-are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS).
-Within each major release, only the most recent minor release is considered.
+are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian
+LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from
+later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the
+most recent minor release is considered.
 
 For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on Linux,
 the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and
-- 
2.34.1

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:15:01PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> The repositories containing them are usually offered with lower
> guarantees, so we don't consider them when it comes to figuring
> out the minimum targeted version of our dependencies.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/platforms.rst | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/platforms.rst b/docs/platforms.rst
> index 8c281afebd..90f14b02e8 100644
> --- a/docs/platforms.rst
> +++ b/docs/platforms.rst
> @@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ The project aims to support the most recent major version at all times. Support
>  for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
>  version is released or when the vendor itself drops support, whichever comes
>  first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a distro
> -are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian LTS).
> -Within each major release, only the most recent minor release is considered.
> +are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (e.g. Debian
> +LTS); the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from
> +later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the
> +most recent minor release is considered.

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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