On Mi, 06.07.22 21:05, Gary Buhrmaster ([email protected]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 3:45 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23924 proposes adding > > SUPPORT_END=YYYY-MM-DD to /usr/lib/os-release. > > I like the concept, but.... > > (warning, taxonomy discussion....) > > The announcement for os-release included > the following statement: > > Please prefix your keys with your distribution's > name however. Or even better: talk to us and > we might be able update the documentation and > make your field standard, if you convince us that > it makes sense. > > And while I would prefer the effort to get > the field standardized (perhaps END_OF_SUPPORT=?) > any name in Fedora should be something of > the form REDHAT_.... or FEDORA_.... I would > probably also prefer the stanza be differently > named (I prefer the term EOL or EOS) but the > important point (to me) is the prefix.
It's an *upstream* PR, and the os-release format is defined by the systemd project, so because this has been merged now it as as "standard" as it can get now, across distros. Still up to each distro individually if they actually want to implement it though. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
