Can this be extended to debian?

[viggy28]

Thanks @ardentperf for the amazing work that you have done to bring more visibility to this issue. Wondering will you be interested in extending this to debian?

[ardentperf]

I can try to take a look sometime. We just need to find some AMIs for old debian releases... let's see how far back I can find them. Do you agree that it would be ok to skip the point-release updates and just do each major release for Debian?

That said - the differences are driven by the glibc and ICU packages, and the distro is just a vehicle for easy access to test a bunch of different glibc and ICU versions. I would expect that the Debian output would mirror what's already here. In the meantime until I find time (it might take a little while), you could always check the glibc/ICU versions from your old and new debian systems, and use the ubuntu table here to get an approximation of changes to expect.

[viggy28]

Sorry for the delay.

Do you agree that it would be ok to skip the point-release updates and just do each major release for Debian?

Agree. Major release is more than suffice.

I would expect that the Debian output would mirror what's already here. In the meantime until I find time (it might take a little while), you could always check the glibc/ICU versions from your old and new debian systems, and use the ubuntu table here to get an approximation of changes to expect.

That's a good point. Thanks.