Fedora/34 v0.9.9 upgrade

[necro-nemesis]

Merged to v0.9.9 upstream/stable

changes to versioning and deletion of associated patch. revised dns patch. revised SPEC file - SPEC for changes.

[majestrate]

can we get @jagerman to do a once down of this to update it to 0.9.12 tag when we put that out?

[necro-nemesis]

How far back in distros do you want to continue to support? We also didn't build for OpenSUSE or CentOS on v.0.9.11 and I didn't hear a public cry out for demand. I don't know if those are a "if you build it they will come" objective or just wait until people start asking for it. They build similarly to F35 but lack systemd-resolved F35 has thus presently require some manual post installation DNS tweaking to work.

[majestrate]

for debian we support back to old stable, not sure what fedora's release cycles are bound by but i know centos is even more long term than debian.

[necro-nemesis]

Fedora has 2 releases / year. 13 months of support for each release. I'd argue if Fedora no longer supports it themselves it's time to move on. OpenSUSE and CentOS appear to be considerably longer between releases.

[necro-nemesis]

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/eol/

[jagerman]

I'd argue if Fedora no longer supports it themselves it's time to move on.

Yup, that's our same policy for the short-lived Ubuntu releases (20.10, 21.04, 21.10, 22.10, etc.): we support them for the same 9 months that Ubuntu does.