Hello, On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 03:50:05PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 01.04.19 13:40, Holger Levsen wrote: > >this is gone: > > > >deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main > > formerly volatile. > > We have asked if it's going to be re-added, even if empty, to avoid people > using jessie from seeing errors when updateing package lists. > > do I have to fill a bugreport to get it back?
I do understand that re-adding an empty jessie-updates directory will silence a lot of warnings from apt update, and thus would avoid the questions from end users that I have seen in a lot of places, but… I can't help thinking that although it is bad that these users were confused, at least they now understand that the level of support has changed. Is there not a risk in future that these people will merrily go on using an empty buster-updates without ever realising that they are using a distribution with updates only from the LTS project? I don't know what the answer is other than having apt itself show a warning about the levels of support changing, but until we work out a better solution, isn't having the <dist>-updates suite go away at least a final chance to get the user's attention? How about a package update at the cut-over point with a NEWS changelog saying something like, "this distribution is now only supported by LTS; you should upgrade to continue to enjoy the usual level of support. For more information about the LTS project please see: https://…"; ? Cheers, Andy
