CI: distro releases coverage

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 04:32:23PM +0200, Jakub Ružička wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was pleased to discover BIRD has a very good distro coverage in its
> [CI] (~25 different releases).
> 
> [CI] https://gitlab.nic.cz/labs/bird/-/pipelines
> 
> However, some latest releases are missing so I suggest adding support
> for following currently officially supported distros when opportunities
> arise:

Hello

We will look at that.


> Also, following distros are either at End of Life or close and can be
> removed:
> 
> * Fedora 25 - 31 EOL
> * Ubuntu 14.04 EOL (16.04 soon)
> * Debian 8 is two releases and 6 years old with Debian 11 releasing soon

We remove these when we need some newer features so keeping old support
is not worth. Just recently we removed Debian 7 as it has too old
compiler. We generally try to support up to 5 year old systems.

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