On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:47:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:19:19PM -0800, ow wrote: > > Something like "we support our releases for 24 months (or whatever) > > from the date of the release" would be very helpful, I think, to all > > Debian users (and developers). This way everyone knows what to expect > > well in advance and has enough time to prepare, there are no surprises. > > OK, I'll speak generally for the group based on what I've seen in the > past: When a new release hits, security updates will be available for > the distro for 2 weeks. > > Anything beyond that is because some large site has brought it to the > security team's attention that it's going to take longer than that to > migrate due to some sticky, site-specific issues that need to be > worked out before they roll it out to all thier machines.
I don't think we'd ever inflict something as short as 2 weeks on our users, large sites or no large sites. "A few" months is about the minimum the developer community would accept, IMHO. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
