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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 5:07
            PM Cyril Hrubis <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            > > Is it the oldest version we want to support or
            even something older?<br>
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            > I'd like minimum to be at least 3.10.0 / glibc-2.17
            (RHEL7).<br>
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            <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">This
              minimum looks good to me.</div>
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            > <br>
            > Older distros use LTP mostly for regression tests, so
            it might be acceptable<br>
            > for users to switch to older release tag, rather than
            always latest master.<br>
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          <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">I think
            so. To switch to older release is a better option in that
            situation.</div>
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            > <br>
            > There's also an option, we create a "legacy" branch for
            old distros,<br>
            > and accept only critical fixes (no new tests, rewrites,
            etc.). It would<br>
            > be unsupported, but provide place where legacy users
            can cooperate.<br>
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            I was trying to avoid having several active branches for LTP
            for several<br>
            reasons. Mainly to avoid people running old LTP on
            reasonably modern<br>
            kernels because they were under an impression that older
            release is more<br>
            stable. Hence I would like to avoid having this if possible.<br>
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            <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Yes, to
              maintain an old LTP branch will also cost more energy, I
              agree to avoid do that too.</div>
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            <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">But one
              more question, if a person posts a patch to fix an older
              issue which conflicts with the new kernel stuff, what
              should we do for that? </div>
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     In this <span class="gt-baf-term-text"><span class="gt-baf-cell
        gt-baf-word-clickable">situation,  I think new kernel stuff has
        a higher priority if older issue is not very serious.<br>
         For Oldest supported , I don't think we must specify a kernel
        or glibc oldest version. <br>
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    <pre wrap=""> Kind Regards
 Yang Xu </pre>
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            <div>Regards,<br>
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            <div>Li Wang<br>
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