> What is the user supposed to do when Debian announces that some > software essential for that user is no longer supported in the > stable release the user is using?
Again, where does this differ from the user realizing their own self- baked installation cannot be upgraded anymore? > At that point the options for the user are either to continue using > software that might already have known grave vulnerabilities, or to > do a rushed attempt trying to find some way to self-install an > upstream > version that is still supported. And why wouldn't we offer said upstream version instead of the unsupported older one? Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
