> For such a new piece of infrastructure is there really a compelling
reason to support distributions older than Debian bookworm (released 3
years ago)? Do you have any current use-cases for something older?
>
Well, only for the sake of user-friendliness to the people on really old
distributions, if it will not come at the price of real pain in our
backsides. We ourselves use only ubuntu:22.04 for now.
And I'm sure that vendoring will be of great help here.