[request-tracker-maintainers] Removal of Request Tracker 4 from Trixie

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Mon Mar 10 21:33:57 GMT 2025


On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 09:17:27AM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> We don't want RT4 in Trixie. I think it is time to rip the band aid off and
> remove it.
> 
> On that basis, I'll update all the extensions to drop building RT4 packages
> so that we're in a position to request removal of RT4.
> 
> I plan on starting this work in a couple of days. Any objections, please
> shout out. I'll also take the opportunity to update a couple of extensions
> to latest upstream versions.

That sounds like a great plan, thanks for taking this on!

> We should probably also talk to the security team about helping them upgrade
> from RT4 to RT5. I don't know if they have any customisations that could
> make this harder.

Certainly give them a heads up. For that matter, is it possible
to spruce the major version upgrade docs to make sure they work
for 4 to 5 still?

Cheers
Dominic



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