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[Frederic Dumas <f.dumas AT ellis.siteparc.fr>]

Hello Jan,
Hello Wytze!


Le 13/07/2019 à 19:04, Jan Dittberner a écrit :

> thanks to the help of Wytze van der Raay I could finish the upgrade 
> of our infrastructure host successfully. The system is now running
> on the Debian Buster OS release that has been released by the Debian 
> project last weekend.



I remember a few emails exchanged this year on the development mailing 
list; my understanding of our "roadmap" to upgrade our servers and 
applications looked like that at that time:

 - first, we have to change our PHP code to make it compatible
   with version 7.x of PHP

 - then we will upgrade the underlying OS, because PHP 7.x is coming
   together with it.

I saw no mail on the development mailing list (it got quiet silent 
lately), which talked about work under progress on our PHP code; I 
believed then that such a work stalled.

Does the upgrade to Buster came along with a custom install of an older 
version of PHP, in order to maintain compatibility with our legacy code?

The main trigger of my present mail is that your work on the Debian 
migration went at a moment when nobody talked about it. Nothing on 
support/dev/board mailing lists. Et voilà, suddenly the work has got 
done by you. Of course, I am not monitoring all mailing list, you may 
have decided together about it through other channels.

I cannot be anything else but very grateful that you guys pushed our 
servers to Buster, saving CAcert from the obsolescence threat, at least 
at the OS level. As a member watching at what happens under the hood 
from quite far away, I got the feeling that the OS migration was done as 
a "farewell" gift wanted by Wytze, in order to keep the platform as 
stable as possible after he left. Of course, my course of interpretation 
might be over extrapolated. However, thank you for the work you did.



Regards,

Frédéric.


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Frédéric Dumas
f.dumas AT ellis.siteparc.fr