On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:42:11 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On 07/05/2011 03:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:30:03 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >>> [Please Cc me, I am not subscribed.] >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 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. >> >> (...) >> >> That one person must be "me". >> >> Yes, I was the one who recently sent the announcement notice to d-u >> mailing list (it seemed to me that nobody was aware of it...) and >> would be nice to know what's the official possition on this matter. >> >> As I didn't read any other notice about this, I expected the >> statatement made on 2009 still applies. If no, an additional notice >> stating the new plans would be more than desiderable so people can >> smoothly deploy their install strategies. >> >> I expected that Lenny (now "oldtstable") is still getting security >> fixes until Wheezy is released, and once out, it gets dropped. > > The rule is that a release is supported up to the next release + 1 > year unless the release after the next one comes earlier. So for Lenny > that would mean until release date of Squeeze + 1 year (February 6th > 2012) unless Wheezy would be released earlier. Obviously Wheezy won't > be released before, so Lenny is supported until Febrary next year.
Thanks for replying. In this specific case the common rule contradicts the official announcemnet¹ -made by you- on June 2009 so if something has changed in between it would be nice to inform the users about this with a new official confirmation so they can know what's your actual planning. ¹http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110705180510.ga9...@stt008.linux.site
