[Nut-upsuser] APC BX ...MI series

[Jim Klimov]

To that tune, here with NUT being an important cog to keep machines
running, even those who might struggle due to respectable age, there is
some deliberate effort to support 25 years' worth of dependencies so that
current NUT can be built as far back as CentOS 7 or Solaris 8.

Still, as NUT releases are effectively snapshots of current master branch
at a moment when most loose ends have got tied up, any feasible community
support and especially code fixes can only regard the newest code base
(ideally master). This stance also helps put the spotlight on the bleeding
edge of development to find and fix recent regressions and inconveniences,
before tagging a yet-another numbered snapshot that distros might pick up
in a year or so... to deliver to a much larger population. Troubleshooting
of older releases can only go as far as ideas, suggestions or condolences,
all based on fading memories. Even if a new bug gets confirmed, it gets
fixed on master branch.

Jim


On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 18:30 Greg Troxel via Nut-upsuser <
nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> Peter Bell <peter at bellfamily.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On 20/08/2024 19:18, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> People running old versions is a recurring problem for an (unrelated)
> >> project that I maintain, and I've adopted a policy that bug reports may
> >> only be filed against the latest formal release or the current git
> >> master beyond the release.   I think ups-nut sort of has that in the
> >> issue tracker, but like my other project it's ok to ask for help on the
> >> list.  Still, the first answer is almost always "update to the latest
> >> release, at least".
>
> > Let's not get into distro wars - that can run for a long time!
>
> Sure, but I am saying something much simpler:
>
>   You are welcome to run whatever you want.  But, when people ask for
>   help I expect them to either:
>
>     first ensure they are running the latest release, or
>
>     direct their help request to the same people that provided them with
>     old software.
>
> I find that some people who choose things like RHEL expect Free Software
> projects to
>
>   accomodate their choices, and keep allowing the use of ancient
>   dependencies provided with their system.
>
>   provide debugging support for old versions of the open source project
>
> and that's what I'm not ok with.
>
>
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