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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=libvir-list-bounces@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @redhat.com) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1644502540652100001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 --- 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 versio= n 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 com= es first. In this context, third-party efforts to extend the lifetime of a di= stro -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 considere= d. +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 fr= om +later releases (e.g. Debian backports). Within each major release, only the +most recent minor release is considered. =20 For the purposes of identifying supported software versions available on L= inux, the project will look at CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL, SLES and --=20 2.34.1