From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7091A211B4 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:47:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: [PATCH] HACKING: update Debian version information Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:47:10 +0000 Message-Id: <20190111204710.27129-1-e@80x24.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: It's been a few years since this was updated... --- HACKING | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 3435775..2bf549f 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ This includes folks on slow connections and ancient browsers which may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands. Only depend on Free Software packages which exist in the "main" -section of Debian 7.0 and later. (We will bump version requirements -as time passes, but this is current as of January 2016). +section of Debian "stable" distribution. That is Debian 9.x +("stretch") as of this writing, but "oldstable" (8.x, "jessie") +remains supported for v1 repositories. + In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than the shiny new. -- EW