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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Paul Bourke <paul.bourke at oracle.com> wrote:
> -1 for deprecating Debian.
>
> As I mentioned in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/369183/, Debian support
> was added incrementally by Benedikt Trefzer as recently as June. So it's
> reasonable to believe there is at least one active user of Debian.
>
> I would like to try get some input from him on whether he's still using it
> and would be interested in helping maintain by adding gates etc.
>
> On 19/09/16 18:44, Jeffrey Zhang wrote:
>>
>> Kolla core reviewer team,
>>
>> Kolla supports multiple Linux distros now, including
>>
>> * Ubuntu
>> * CentOS
>> * RHEL
>> * Fedora
>> * Debian
>> * OracleLinux
>>
>> But only Ubuntu, CentOS, and OracleLinux are widely used and we have
>> robust gate to ensure the quality.
>>
>> For Debian, Kolla hasn't any test for it and nobody reports any bug
>> about it( i.e. nobody use Debian as base distro image). We (kolla
>> team) also do not have enough resources to support so many Linux
>> distros. I prefer to deprecate Debian support now.
>>
>> Please vote:
>>
>> 1. Kolla needs support Debian( if so, we need some guys to set up the
>> gate and fix all the issues ASAP in O cycle)
>> 2. Kolla should deprecate Debian support
>>
>> Voting is open for 7 days until September 27st, 2016.
>>
>
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+1 for #2

I agree with reasoning from Paul, though Debian support was being
added incrementally by Benedikt Trefzer but it has been stopped in
middle and all patches in the queue were abandoned [1]

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/build-debian,n,z