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@@ -267,6 +267,26 @@ REQUIREMENTS: - strace (used by test/test-functions) - capsh (optional, used by test-execute) +POLICY FOR SUPPORT OF DISTRIBUTIONS AND ARCHITECTURES: + + systemd main branch and latest major or stable releases are generally + expected to compile on current versions of popular distributions (at + least all non-EOL versions of Fedora, Debian unstable/testing/stable, + latest Ubuntu LTS and non-LTS releases, openSUSE Tumbleweed/Leap, + CentoOS Stream 8 and 9, up-to-date Arch, etc.) We will generally + attempt to support also other non-EOL versions of various distros. + Features which would break compilation on slightly-older distributions + will only be introduced if there are significant reasons for this + (i.e. supporting them interferes with development or requires too many + resources to support). In some cases backports of specific libraries or + tools might be required. + + The policy is similar wrt. architecture support. systemd is regularly + tested on popular architectures (currently amd64, i386, arm64, ppc64el, + and s390x), but should compile and work also on other architectures, for + which support has been added. systemd will emit warnings when + architecture-specific constants are not defined. + USERS AND GROUPS: Default udev rules use the following standard system group names, which need to be resolvable by getgrnam() at any time, even in the very early |