On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:45:20PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > i agree that longer support for old releases would be wonderful, but > that would mean at times providing full support for three concurrent > releases (oldstable, stable, and testing).
very short times ;) > it already seems hard enough with the current level of manpower to > support two releases at the same time let alone three. it may be > doable, but the security team would need more volunteers (particularly > those interested in doing the work to keep oldstable supported). of course! i just wanted to point out that the fact that a direct upgrade from N to N+2 isn't supported doesn't mean that it wouldn't be desirable to get the length of the security support to that length. cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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