On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:50 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > emigrant: > > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > >> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release + > >> another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total. > > D'ouh. Of course, I meant to write "that's more than two years in > total". > > > :-( > > is the life cycle of debian such short? > > Why 'short'? Take a look at this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history > > Lenny was released in February 2009. If squeeze is released, say in > October 2010, Lenny will go out of support in October 2011. That's a > lifecycle of two years and eight months. > > > isn't lenny available for a long time now? i understand it is a major > > release. > > and isn't squeez a major release too? > > Yes and yes. Major releases have code names, point releases just > increment the version number by a fraction. > > J.
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