Prep for Debian bookworm and 5.38
zakame opened this issue · comments
We'll likely go ahead and switch to bookworm/bullseye on the supported versions now (and keep bullseye/buster for the rest) while we await the 5.38.0 release later this month.
I would be grateful if you could provide support for Debian Buster, as it is still within its End of Life (EOL) period.
According to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases buster received its final update and thus already EOL since 2022-09-10. We generally follow the policy of docker-library when the selection of Debian base is involved, see e.g. #88 and docker-library/official-images#8405 - in particular, we won't be able to do builds on Debian LTS (post-EOL) releases as the docker-library base only up to the last point release (e.g. docker-library/official-images#14832.) cc @tianon as he would know better than me
For now though, we could do a 5.38.0/5.36.1 release on bookworm/bullseye/buster then switch to bookwork/bullseye only when 5.38.1 arrives - let me know if that works for you @AnaTofuZ
We usually try to avoid supporting more than two releases of a given distribution per version for things that are on the heavier side to build (esp. building from source), like Python, Ruby, etc.
The Debian Buster base images will still be maintained/updated through the LTS period though (but specifically not ELTS, so until ~2024-06-30, and the limited set of supported LTS architectures will be reflected in the updated images), and we'll support you if you feel strongly that you really should continue building/supporting Debian Buster-based images (and would just ask that you limit that set to what's really necessary/important).
Perl 5.38.0 now on Docker Hub