When do Qubes versions get deprecated?

[Patrick Schleizer]

When do Qubes versions get deprecated?

At some point I would like to require Whonix upgrades a minimum version
number of Qubes. Such as for Whonix 14 or 15, I would like to depend on
Qubes >= R3.2.

Users using older Qubes releases trying to upgrade to a newer Whonix
version would then end up with apt-get refusing to upgrade due to
missing qubes-core-agent versioned dependency.

This is because I would like to depend on the status files
/var/run/qubes/this-is-templatevm etc. by qubes-sysinit since R3.2
without caring around the legacy stuff (such as legacy Whonix
bind-directories).

I am planning some refactoring to make the systemd dependencies more robust.

https://github.com/adrelanos/qubes-whonix/tree/qubes-whonix-postinit-split

The legacy stuff got too crowded. Would not look clean while carringy
around the legacy stuff. And without clean looks I cannot understand and
maintain it myself so I wait until old Qubes versions are no longer
supported. Example how "crowded" it would look like:

https://github.com/adrelanos/qubes-whonix/blob/qubes-whonix-postinit-split/lib/systemd/system/qubes-whonix-replace-ips.service

Cheers,
Patrick

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-07-23 17:40, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> When do Qubes versions get deprecated?
>

Qubes OS releases are supported for six months after each subsequent major or
minor release:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/supported-versions/

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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