[GHC-Releases] Updating Linux distribution support

[Julian Ospald]

Why is Ubuntu 22.04 being dropped? Similarly, Why is there no Rocky 9?

On 3/19/25 3:13 AM, Ben Gamari via ghc-releases wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For the last several releases GHC has distributed binary distributions
> for a largely-static set of Linux distributions, many quite old:
> 
> | Distribution        | End-of-life  | Supported    |
> | ------------------- | ------------ | ------------ |
> | Fedora 33           | Nov 2021     | no           |
> | Fedora 38           | May 2024     | no           |
> | Alpine 3.12         | May 2022     | no           |
> | Alpine 3.18         | Apr 2025     |              |
> | Alpine 3.20         | Apr 2026     |              |
> | Debian 9            | Jul 2022     | no           |
> | Debian 10           | Jun 2024     | no           |
> | Debian 11           | Aug 2026     |              |
> | Rocky 8             | May 2029     |              |
> | Ubuntu 18.04        | May 2023     | no           |
> | Ubuntu 20.04        | May 2025     | no           |
> | Ubuntu 22.04        | Apr 2027     |              |
> 
> In #25876 I preliminarily propose that we whittle this down to the
> following, more up-to-date set for 9.14.1:
> 
> | Distribution        | End-of-life  |
> | ------------------- | ------------ |
> | Fedora 41           | Nov 2025     |
> | Alpine 3.20         | Apr 2026     |
> | Debian 11           | Aug 2026     |
> | Debian 12           | Jun 2028     |
> | Rocky 8             | May 2029     |
> | Ubuntu 24.04        | Apr 2029     |
> 
> If you have thoughts about this do let us know either via this list or
> on the ticket.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 
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