Re: Doing away with CentOS 6 support (Linux faux-2.6)?

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Thu, 07 Dec 2023 at 23:46, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

> Back in 2018, this was deemed important for HPC clusters, where CentOS 6
> was then relatively common, as Ricardo explained:

Héhé!  A colleague re-installed CentOS 6 this week; for testing
purpose.  Hum… :-)

> Five years later, it seems reasonable to drop the patch (which is likely
> untested these days).  If you disagree, now’s the time to make your
> voice heard!

Yeah, let drop this patch.  Well, CentOS 7 will be soon end of life so
it seems very reasonable to drop patches for CentOS 6 only.

Cheers,
simon