[PATCH] makefile: remove Ubuntu Yakkety and Zesty docker targets

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Tue Feb 6 09:44:51 EST 2018


On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:22:02 -0800, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:23 AM, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:48:00 +0800, Anton Shestakov wrote:
> > > # HG changeset patch
> > > # User Anton Shestakov <av6 at dwimlabs.net>
> > > # Date 1517827181 -28800
> > > #      Mon Feb 05 18:39:41 2018 +0800
> > > # Node ID d5509e242b927dbee808e4d62a7f10b3a5c406cf
> > > # Parent  ed3a7300b7b5a427bdcffefd0c80aab65824bf4b
> > > makefile: remove Ubuntu Yakkety and Zesty docker targets
> >
> > Queued, thanks.
> >
> 
> In the past, I've had to restore support for some old distros in order to
> build modern Mercurial packages for some older distros that still had
> limited use in the wild. So there is value to keeping these targets around
> even if the distro is no longer supported upstream. It's only a minor
> inconvenience for me. I just thought I'd raise the concern in case it
> influences our decision making on patches like this.

I have no preference. It's just a make rule kicking one command. It could
even be "make docker-ubuntu CODENAME=yakkety" so we don't have to update
our Makefile per Ubuntu release.


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