Re: Remove support for nvidia-cuda-toolkit?
Hi Roberto
Got it. I will assess. I guess also the popularity of the package
counts in this case.
// Ola
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 22:32, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:06:19PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hi Roberto
> >
> > That was an interesting form. There were a few fields that I'm not
> > sure how to fill in more than the obvious.
> >
> > Like what is the impact of full EOL.
> > Is it as simple as just to tell that we will not provide security
> > support for this package? Or is it something more?
> >
>
> You will have to assess that. For instance, if we would EOL firefox-esr,
> the impact would be that many users to would lose access to current
> versions (with security fixes) of a popular web browser. If we were to
> EOL commonly used compiler/language runtime, then the ability of users
> to build with that compiler/language runtime as well as the ability of
> our team to build package updates could be impacted.
>
> So, it is necessary to take a look at how a particular package is meant
> to be used, how it is actually being used, and then assess how those
> intended and actual use cases would be affected by an EOL decision.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
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> Roberto C. Sánchez
>
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