* Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@ph.tum.de> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > Michael Gilbert wrote: >> 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). > > I found this posting on testing-security-announce which seems to indicate > that security support for squeeze is not going to start soon: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2010/01/msg00000.html > > However if that is the case, I wonder if oldstable support could be > extended for some more time.
But why? There is a *stable* release with security support. Debian isn't made for skipping a whole release. And the end of support for etch was announced long ago, so that everyone had enough time to switch to lenny, and not 2 days before breakeven. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
