From: Teemu Likonen Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:19:03 GMT Subject: Re: Closing the merge window for 1.6.0 Message-ID: <20080714191903.GB5788@mithlond.arda.local> In-Reply-To: <7v3amcgujd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote (2008-07-14 12:00 -0700): > Nicolas Pitre writes: > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Gerrit Pape wrote: > >> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > >> > > I'm saying this because I believe the best conservative upper > >> > > bound for backwards compatibility is Git version in Debian > >> > > stable. It gets > > Please consider it as a critical usability problem. > > > > Maybe we can release 1.4.5 with the ability to read index v2? That > > wouldn't be hard to backport the reading part of it. > I am of two minds here. > > On one hand, I am sympathetic to distros that want to give long time > support for ancient versions to keep working in an ever-changing new > world. It is a wonderful thing that there are distros that aim for > ultra conservative stability, and I applaud them. > > But as the upstream, we have our own deprecation schedule. As Debian stable (4.0 "Etch") and its git 1.4.4.4 was mentioned I'd like to point out that git 1.5.6 is available for Etch users from kind-of-semi-official . So I guess Debian stable users aren't left completely behind. Git's web page already advertises backports.org version for Etch.