On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:53:39 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Mi, 23 feb 11, 17:01:41, Camaleón wrote:
>> 
>> Lenny will drop security patches when wheezy comes out
> 
> or one year after the release of squeeze, whichever comes first[1]

Sure. I hope Wheezy is not released tomorrow :-)

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>> Debian support for releases is about 2 years).
> 
> By your numbers it's about 4 years (2 years as stable and 2 years as
> oldstable), but in fact it's only about 3 years (aprox. 2 years as
> stable and 1 year as oldstable).

Nope, I expect "a minimum" of 2 years of full security patches support 
(the longer, the better), more or less because Debian has not a fixed 
release cycle like other distributions.

> [1] http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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