On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Camaleón:
(...) >>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. >> >> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how >> it used to be but now aren't we based on a 2-year of release fixed >> cycle? :-? >> >> http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 >> >> In that announcement it can be read: (...) > Interesting, I don't remember that at all. Before installing a system, I carefully read what is the estimated/ foreseen EOL for it. It's a must for me because I have servers to maintain and I can't go reinstalling every year. > I can only speculate about this, but I don't think this announcement is > relevant any more. The document is from July 2009 and predicted/promised > a squeeze release in early 2010. For that case only the authors promised > that you could skip the squeeze release. What actually happened is that > it took another whole year to release squeeze. Dunno, but I hope the comittment is stil valid. >> I understand this is not the norm, but an exception for lenny in order >> to accomodate to the new development cycle. > > … which didn't happen. Again, dunno. I only know what I've read at Debian official announcements. Seems to me that we (we → Debian) have to improve our communication skills >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.29.14.52...@gmail.com
