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charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZohoMail-DKIM: pass (identity @redhat.com) X-ZM-MESSAGEID: 1659712837818100001 From: Andrea Bolognani These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits: 2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages 78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter. The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling out some rules that were likely already being implicitly enforced. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 --- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index 6b8496c430..26028756d0 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -71,7 +71,10 @@ 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). +are not considered, even when they are endorsed by the vendor (eg. Debian = LTS); +the same is true of repositories that contain packages backported from lat= er +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 2.37.1