ANN: openSUSE-11.4 to be discontinued Nov 5th

[rwas]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>  On 10/16/2012 06:33 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > SUSE announced to discontinue openSUSE-11.4, Nov. 5th.
> >
> > c.f.:
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2012-10/msg00003.html
> >
> > I am planning to join SUSE's plan, i.e. to discontinue building and
> > to remove all RTEMS suse-11.4 toolchain packages at the same date
> > or shortly afterwards.
>
>  This is effective now.
>
>  All openSUSE-11.4 repositories on rtems.org have been removed.

I can understand the *not maintaining* part, but why on earth remove 
something that
already exists and might be of use to others still using 11.4?

btw: os11.4 is considered a very good release, better than 12.1 or 12.2.

Robert W.