Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  *From: *Leon Timmermans <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
> *To: *Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[email protected]>, Russ Allbery <
> [email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 8:24 PM Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I continue to wonder if there’s value in setting this up. Who needs 5.6 or
> 5.8, etc. so desperately that we need to maintain this stream? How do we
> know when they don’t need it?
>
>
>
> >Module::Build::Tiny hasn't been installable on a clean 5.8 for over a
> year (because CPAN::Meta::Requirements now requires 5.10) and I >didn't get
> any emails/tickets about it; so it doesn't appear to be very alive. I'm
> expecting 5.10 to be very different though (because RHEL >6).
>
>
>
> RHEL 6 and 7 are VERY dead. People are actively scrambling to get off
> them. I would expect that things like updating from CPAN are very much off
> people’s radar.
>

I wish that were true, but my most recent interaction with RHEL 6 was this
morning.

Leon