On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Slightly different approach: However, for serious server deployments we in > Debian might want to think about supporting older releases a little longer > than atm. > > A scheme like > > veryoldstable -> oldstable -> stable -> testing -> unstable > > From the perspective of someone administrating several deployments a support > range of 5 years would be very welcome. Like Ubuntu LTS (so that nobody can > say, my mail is getting off-topic ;-) ). (The lifetime of lenny e.g. was > apprx. 3 years.)
Please check out these links if you want to make this happen. Probably an initial target of supporting oldstable for the same length of time as stable (instead of just a year) is a good first goal to achieve before adding more supported suites. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00238.html http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120209 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/caktje6es6y_qs5fuq6_zwzqunmmx17vm-pcnekaq8-s--a_...@mail.gmail.com
