* [PATCH] HACKING: update Debian version information
@ 2019-01-11 20:47 Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2019-01-11 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
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
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