On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:03:11 +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:05:10PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: >> > 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. >> >> > Hi Camaleón, > > Thanks for getting in touch. I'm afraid that I don't agree with your > interpretation of that announcement, and its applicability now,
I really think there is no much room for "interpretations" by reading the announcement but I can understand that your plans have now changed for whatever reasons, no problem with that. > but despite that I do acknowledge it may be useful to provide a > confirmation. Yes, it would be indeed nice to have it in order to accomodate the upgrading path. > Thus, you can take this as confirmation that there is no current plan to > support 5.0 to 7.0 upgrades, unless we release by February 2012. As we > are due to freeze in June 2012, I don't believe that this will occur. Thanks for clarifying that. Now I can redo my plans for the upcoming release :-) May I also ask if the idea of a 2-year fixed cycle freeze is still in place (is valid) or has been reviewed and then discarded? 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/pan.2011.07.07.13.23...@gmail.com
