Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > Siju George wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous >> release will be made for an year more. >> Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as >> soon as possible? > Only security updates will be made to Etch, for still nine more > months. Yet, as Lenny is stable now, it also won't get new features. > I don't think it is wise to run Etch when the security support ends, > so upgrading before January 2010 seems sane to me. > Yet, of course do take time to plan and test your update cycle > appropriately, don't wait until the last day. > > Sjoerd
But I have on my Pentium I or II (?) PC box a Debian Etch that I can't to upgrade to Lenny because of this bug (?): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517986 -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
