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Re: [PATCH] libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out arc
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: [PATCH] libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out archs |
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Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:52:05 -0600 (CST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07) |
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024, Roumen Petrov wrote:
Hi All
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On 16 Jan 2024 21:11, Brad Smith wrote:
libtool: remove OpenBSD support for non-shared and a.out archs
OpenBSD stopped supporting the last non-shared arch 8 years ago
and stopped supporting a.out 10.5 years ago.
This cannot be reason to drop support.
For instance RHEL was release in 2011 and is still supported.
This seems like a strong argument, but there are other factors.
A strong reason to stop supporting a target/version is if it's
existence interferes with maintenance/development and there is no
reasonable means available to verify that the support still works.
Support which is not periodically tested likely does not work any
more.
Bob
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