Policy for package lifecycle

Fedora Lifecycle Policy

Digest

• The Fedora Project maintains any given release X until one month after the release of X+2. Unmaintained releases are said to be in End-of-life state (EOL) (so fedora Fedora 7 was End-of-life one month after Fedora 9 release). See LifeCycle.

• Branches for new packages in CVS are not allowed for distribution X after the Fedora X+2 release. New builds are no longer allowed for EOL Fedora releases.

• Existing bugs against EOL releases are closed automatically.

• New bugs for EOL releases are not looked at.

• FESCo can approve exceptions of these rules if there are good reasons for it.

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