On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:53:47AM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > But I'd like to stress we need *all* developers to be involved fix bugs > > (esp. security) in their packages in all the supported releases, not only > > in current-stable. > > I am afraid I am not on board for this. I do not agree with requiring > me to support old software for years and years after I've stopped using > it. It is not something that interests me as a technical challenge; > instead the task is tedious and boring. > (I don't want this to sound rude or smartass but genuinely interested because I'm surprised more DDs think like you, as I discovered in the DreamHost thread) What do you do with the 1 year of support Debian currently gives to oldstable? It's also 1 year you stopped using that version, so no technical challenge either. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)