On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I can confirm the trend for a couple of organisations. The primary > reason that I identified was the retirement of security support for > Lenny and that Lenny packages are removed from many Debian mirrors which > made it difficult to use Lenny machines. IMHO, supporting an OS release > for only 3 years is not long enough.
We don't have enough human power to fix all the RC bugs that crop up in stable during its lifetime, I doubt maintainers are ever going to want or be able to support oldstable for longer than we do already. http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ As far as support for oldstable on security issues goes, you might want to take a look at these pages: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00006.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00029.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00030.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00033.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/threads.html#00001 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6FBbk8smMq0=vGVmU0cpy_8gF0OmsM-15N1VyXaR==-v...@mail.gmail.com
