Post B0nj75c1kCIVbefH9s by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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(DIR) Post #B0nZdPgTecDvaCWLVg by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T08:13:09Z
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@notthebeenoob question: isn't the whole point of NixOS that you can have multiple versions o dependencies like php? And unless it's exposed to a public network, I don't see why EOL should matter...@darix
(DIR) Post #B0nZsNvSTRbmTOfPhQ by darix@mastodon.social
2025-12-01T08:15:50Z
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@wolf480pl @notthebee i had this discussion a while ago (musescore needed some older Qt6 version) ... it is not as straight forward as it seems to establish a parallel older version of a package. which sounded weird to me tbh.TBH depending on which changes are needed it might really be easier to just backport the support for newer php and move forward.
(DIR) Post #B0ncdbLMbWZrbfQUJE by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T08:46:48Z
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@notthebee @darix The idea of downstream backporting is you start doing it when upstream stops doing it.You look at security fixes for 9.x and backport those....is how I imagine it works.And I imagine it takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
(DIR) Post #B0ndIdwBrfdTWaDouG by darix@mastodon.social
2025-12-01T08:54:12Z
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@wolf480pl @notthebee pretty much this. 1. check if the security bug affects 8.12. check if the code saw major changes between 8.1 and 8.x3. backport 8.x patch to 8.1
(DIR) Post #B0ne6rFedbtZIQGowC by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T09:03:18Z
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@darixoh, latest is 8.5 not 8.x? They make breaking changes on minors? wtf...@notthebee
(DIR) Post #B0nexihd9WPS89Yw0O by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T09:12:51Z
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@notthebeeDebian totally does the latter.Some distros have a policy against such downstream backporting, or downstream patching I'm general, so I thought @darix was implying this could be done even more downstream (in your personal packages) but idk seems like a lot of work to me...
(DIR) Post #B0nfI9E0FmXWBARfEG by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T09:16:32Z
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@notthebeewell ok it's not "developing your own fixes", but it is porting fixes from a version supported by upstream to a version unsupported by upstream@darix
(DIR) Post #B0nj75c1kCIVbefH9s by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
2025-12-01T09:59:22Z
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@notthebeeYeah, it's obviously a question of resources. I wonder why @darix thinks it'd be easy in this case...
(DIR) Post #B0nxt3TmNPKAFVZZjM by darix@mastodon.social
2025-12-01T12:44:54Z
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@wolf480pl @notthebee because all other distros do it. And it was my job for the last 20.5 years.