package: debian-security-support severity: wishlist Hi,
so this is from debian/rules:
DEBIAN_VERSION ?= $(shell LANG=C dpkg -l base-files | awk '($$1=="ii"){print
$$3}' | cut -d. -f1)
[...]
cp security-support-ended.deb$(DEBIAN_VERSION) debian/tmp/security-support-
ended
So one deb will only suport the Debian release it was build on. This is bad
from a package maintainance point of view bu worse from a usage point of view:
a package can only be installed on the release it was build on.
It would be way better if /usr/bin/check-support-status would determine the
release at runtime and then give the information based on that.
(It's also annoying because this way the installed binary package cannot be
used to query information about security support on other releases. The source
package needs to be queried for this...)
cheers,
Holger
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