On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:13:28PM +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 believe so, yes. There isn't a need for supporting the skip-upgrade. That's not to say that it *won't* work, but it's not something we are going to commit to. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- 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/20110630142110.ga1...@einval.com
