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Print the CentOS 8 package link just like we do with the others. This is not used by any automation, but we might as well fix it for consistency.
CentOS 6 went out of support on November 30, 2020. Moreover, building packages for it requires that we build Ruby in addition to all the gems, plus a version of Git, meaning we spend significant CI resources and time on this platform. Since there's no longer any free security support and we cannot reasonably be expected to run insecure code in CI, since that's dangerous to others on the Internet, let's drop support for CentOS 6.
Debian 8 went out of support on June 30, 2020. Ubuntu 14.04, which uses the same packages, went out of support in 2019. Since there's no longer any free security support and we cannot reasonably be expected to run insecure code in CI, since that's dangerous to others on the Internet, let's drop support for Debian 8.
There have been some additional SLES and Fedora releases since our last major release, so let's add them in so we can upload packages for them.
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We removed support for CentOS 5 in commit 369c712 of PR git-lfs#4080 and for CentOS 6 in commit d69e28d in PR git-lfs#4328; we also removed support for Debian 8 in commit ff36182 of that same PR git-lfs#4328, and for Debian 9 in commit e642e53 of PR git-lfs#5169. We can therefore also remove these distribution names from the set of patterns we match our package filenames against in our upload script for Packagecloud when it prints Markdown output (although this feature of the script may no longer be useful).
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As announced with the v3.6.0 release of the Git LFS client, and as noted in commit 23fbfe8 of PR git-lfs#5911, since all the distribution versions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, CentOS 7, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 for which we previously built RPM packages have now reached the end of their standard LTS (Long-Term Support) periods, future releases of Git LFS will no longer provide support for these platforms or build packages for them. Because we anticipate making a v3.7.0 release of the Git LFS client in the near future, we removed the Dockerfile we used to build packages for the RHEL/CentOS 7 and SLES 12 platforms in commit git-lfs/build-dockers@cfde130 of PR git-lfs/build-dockers#71. We then also removed the entries for these platforms from the list of our supported Linux distribution versions in the DistroMap Ruby class source file, which is utilized by several scripts run by our GitHub Actions release workflow jobs when building and naming the Linux packages we publish on Packagecloud. Previously, we removed support for the RHEL/CentOS 6 platform in commit d69e28d in PR git-lfs#4328. However, our "docker/run_dockers.bsh" shell script still references these platforms in its comments, so we update that script now to provide more up-to-date usage examples. As well, we update the test data in the Ruby RSpec script we use to validate the DistroMap Ruby class source file, so that the test data now aligns more closely with our current list of supported Linux distribution versions. Note, though, that this change does not affect the behaviour of either the test script or the DistroMap source file.
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As announced with the v3.6.0 release of the Git LFS client, and as noted in commit 23fbfe8 of PR git-lfs#5911, since all the distribution versions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, CentOS 7, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 for which we previously built RPM packages have now reached the end of their standard LTS (Long-Term Support) periods, future releases of Git LFS will no longer provide support for these platforms or build packages for them. Because we anticipate making a v3.7.0 release of the Git LFS client in the near future, we removed the Dockerfile we used to build packages for the RHEL/CentOS 7 and SLES 12 platforms in commit git-lfs/build-dockers@cfde130 of PR git-lfs/build-dockers#71. We then also removed the entries for these platforms from the list of our supported Linux distribution versions in the DistroMap Ruby class source file, which is utilized by several scripts run by our GitHub Actions release workflow jobs when building and naming the Linux packages we publish on Packagecloud. Previously, in commit ff36182 of PR git-lfs#4328, we removed support for distribution versions based on the Debian 8 ("jessie") platform, including Ubuntu 14.04 ("Trusty Tahr") and Linux Mint 17.1 ("Rebecca"). However, some of the installation examples in our "INSTALLING.md" page still reference these platforms, so we update these exmaples now with more contemporary Linux distribution versions.
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This PR drops support for CentOS 6 and Debian 8, which are no longer publicly supported upstream. While various versions do have extended security support available, we can't access it, and it doesn't seem like a good idea (or responsible to the rest of the Internet) for us to continue to build packages on versions that are known to be insecure.
This also makes our CI runs significantly faster, since we currently build many packages for CentOS 6 that we can now avoid building. We've shaved 15 minutes off of our build time for Linux packages.
We also add some additional distros that are not in the file. Note that we don't support Fedora 33 because packagecloud.io does not list it as a supported version at this time.