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I am forwarding a discussion from debian-user. I'd love to hear an official statement about this. AFAICS, this issue hasn't been explicitly addressed yet and at least one person from debian-user expects to be able to skip squeeze. Thanks, J. Steve McIntyre: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:32:23PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Steve McIntyre: >>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>>> Steve McIntyre: >>>> >>>>> We will cease support for Lenny early next year, >>>> >>>> Funny that you mention it. We just yesterday discussed whether this news >>>> item is still relevant today: >>>> >>>> / http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 >>>>| Since Debian's last release happened on Feb. 14th 2009, there will >>>>| only be approximately a one year period until its next release, >>>>| Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (codenamed Squeeze). This will be a one-time >>>>| exception to the two-year policy in order to get into the new time >>>>| schedule. To accommodate the needs of larger organisations and other >>>>| users with a long upgrade process, the Debian project commits to >>>>| provide the possibility to skip the upcoming release and do a >>>>| skip-upgrade straight from Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian >>>>| GNU/Linux 7.0 (not yet codenamed). >>>> >>>> I argued that upgrading from 5.0 to 7.0 will not actually be supported >>>> (and hence, lenny will not be supported for longer than one year after >>>> squeeze release) because 6.0 wasn't released ahead of time. Did I get >>>> things right? >>> >>> I believe so, yes. There isn't a need for supporting the >>> skip-upgrade. That's not to say that it *won't* work, but it's not >>> something we are going to commit to. >> >> It might be a good idea to clarify this publicly. Is there a meta >> package to which I may report this bug? :) > > You'd be best off asking for clarification from the Release Team on > debian-release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110630155157.gh1...@einval.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Looking into my eyes is the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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