Re: [PATCH] RFC: Version support policy

[Wojtek Porczyk <woju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:50:25PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> I think it’s too much effort to ask developers to try to find the actual
> minimum version of each individual dependency as things evolve.

By "find the actual minimum version", do you mean to get to know the version
number, or install that version on developer's machine?

The first part is easy, may I recommend the excellent https://repology.org/
tool, which also has API to query the version yourself and render a table
yourself. If there's any interest, I could clean up and share a script to do
tables like this: https://noc.grapheneproject.io/~woju/distros/.

The second part very much depends on distro, but all of them have provisions
to install older versions of packages, though not all of them might carry all
the possible versions (i.e., it might be that you need version X, Distro A has
had versions X-1 and X+1, but never packaged version X). Again, if this is
a problem, it depends on the actual package and compatibility situation.


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pozdrawiam / best regards
Wojtek Porczyk
Invisible Things Lab
 
 I do not fear computers,
 I fear lack of them.
    -- Isaac Asimov

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