Why WineHQ select old linux distributions not deleted?

[hibi]

In WineHQ add app test report("add test data").

ex. Ubuntu5.04~9.10 (and other not LTS releases) is obsolete.
It becomes difficult to operate a selector.

[dimesio]

There are test reports filed for those old versions, so they cannot be deleted from the database without either moving those test reports to some other distro version or deleting the old test reports altogether. The former is obviously incorrect, and while some people might argue for the latter, I think there's value in keeping them for historical purposes.

Besides, just because a version is obsolete doesn't mean nobody's using them. There are people with ancient hardware who can't use newer distros.

[oiaohm]

hibi the appdb source code is accessible by http://source.winehq.org/git/appdb.git/tree

In here you will find that is a design issue. "add test data" shows all versions of Operating systems contained in test data information.

So without altering current appdb code major-ally the only way to hide versions is delete the data. Deleting the data is not helpful to the project for the reasons dimesio stated.

It is possible to open a bug against the appdb asking for feature hibi. The issue is having a developer to modify the code. It would be useful if wine appdb supported flagging OS versions as obsolete then adding a obsolete sub menu to add test data. Yes its not quite as straight forwards request as you would think due to the requirement to support old. Some people can be running virtual machines to run particular programs.

[hibi]

Umm...
I understood that reason.

Thanks.