On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:13:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Steve McIntyre: >> >> We will cease support for Lenny early next year, > > Funny that you mention it. We just yesterday discussed whether this news > item is still relevant today: > > / http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 > | Since Debian's last release > happened on Feb. 14th 2009, there will | only be approximately a one > year period until its next release, | Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (codenamed > Squeeze). This will be a one-time | exception to the two-year policy in > order to get into the new time | schedule. To accommodate the needs of > larger organisations and other | users with a long upgrade process, the > Debian project commits to | provide the possibility to skip the upcoming > release and do a | skip-upgrade straight from Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 > (Lenny) to Debian | GNU/Linux 7.0 (not yet codenamed). > > I argued that upgrading from 5.0 to 7.0 will not actually be supported > (and hence, lenny will not be supported for longer than one year after > squeeze release) because 6.0 wasn't released ahead of time. Did I get > things right?
I hope no. I think official announcements are valid unless otherwise state so. But if the policy has changed in between of the above notice -for whatever reason-, it should be mentioned ASAP so people can re-do their upgrade strategies. 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.2011.06.30.14.38...@gmail.com
