reviving Fedora Legacy

[Horst H. von Brand]

Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote:
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:

> > Why would we want to? Just let things going as long as there is at
> > least one maintainer committing something. Even if not all security
> > issues get fixed, it's better than if none gets fixed.

> I'd love to see this. It could e.g. keep a service in the process of
> being decommissioned alive a little longer without having to do the
> usual upgrade.

Currently you have *6 months* to move over to the next Fedora...

> It wouldn't be good for anything too serious,

I.e., completely useless.

>                                               but if noone steps up
> for a necessary security patch, I could do it myself

Sorry, I very much doubt that.

>                                                      and then get to
> share the result with everyone else on that obsolete release. I would
> have to test all updates locally, but for services on the way out that
> is generally easier than testing the full upgrade.

It is even easier to migrate to CentOS and keep going with that one... the
difference is that the bumps in the road are much bigger, but you have a
couple of years to migrate your stuff.

> If it breaks something for someone, well, they should be more careful
> which updates they apply, especially once official support is gone. It
> might even encourage an upgrade and perhaps keep one box from being
> compromised.

How is that less work in the longer run than just keep upgrading or moving
to some LTS distribution?
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