Hi, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> writes: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:19:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> > And now you bring up the point that Debian should reconsider the >> > lenght of it's release cycles if systemd upstream decides to not >> > support upgrades between distribution releases as far apart as Debian's. >> > [3] >> >> Well, of course we should reconsider the length of our release cycle >> (and make it 3 years like major OS players do), > > You miss the critical difference: > > Red Hat does not support upgrades between major releases of their > enterprise distribution.
Except they do: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will offer an in-place upgrade feature for common server deployment types, allowing data centers to migrate existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"[1]. Ansgar [1] <http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/12/red-hat-announces-availability-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-beta> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org