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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan Wright <[email protected]>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: Devrim Gündüz <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add AlmaLinux as Specifically Supported Distro
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:16:30 -0500
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Jonathan Wright <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:53 AM Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think there would be a concern that if a community package doesn't work
>> on Alma, for whatever reason, we're implying that we will provide support
>> in some way.  If we qualify it too much, it becomes "Alma exists" rather
>> than useful information for the downloader.

> Do you really want to exclude a large portion of the RHEL-clone userbase
> though?  Oracle Linux is listed yet Alma has a much larger user base so I
> don't really understand the argument here.

I don't know the relative sizes of the user bases, but I think it would
be fair to have the download page list only the distro(s) Devrim actually
tests on, and then say something like "The RHEL packages should work on
other binary-compatible RHEL clone distros, but we don't test that".

			regards, tom lane





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