[Neurodebian-users] Removal of Ubuntu gutsy and dapper from the NeuroDebian repository

[Paul Ivanov]

Michael Hanke, on 2010-11-29 14:22,  wrote:
> Dear NeuroDebian users,
> 
> we are planning to remove the Ubuntu gutsy and dapper suites from the
> archive VERY soon. Those releases are four and five years old
> respectively. They haven't seen updates for a while already.
> 
> Unless somebody has good reasons to keep them -- and expresses them --
> we will remove these suites within the next couple of days.

Hi Michael,

Dapper was an LTS, and it looks like archive.ubuntu.com is still
hosting the packages for it. I imagine people still using it
won't be so quick to respond in a manner of days, since they're
using an OS that was released over 4 years ago... At the same
time, it's not clear that they'd be using NeuroDebian without
being somewhat on the up-and-up about the latest happenings,
given how new NeuroDebian is, so this may be moot.

is it just a bandwidth issue?
If it is, I'd be happy to host a side-mirror of the files without
having them part of NeuroDebian officially, anymore. 

Part of me wants to preserve all scientific bits for eternity.
That way if some analysis that was done on Ubuntu 6.06 with a
specific subset of NeuroDeb packages that was written up in a
publication - at any point in the future, someone else can get to
as close of an approximation as possible to the OS+software suite
used and be able to replicate the work. I realize that we
shouldn't have analyses that depend on very specific versions of
everything to get the appropriate scientific results, but it'd be 
reassuring to know that a particular environment can be
replicated down the line. 

tl;dr - We should make the jobs of future digital archaeologists as easy
as possible, no?

-- 
Paul Ivanov
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