Le Mardi 8 Mars 2005 16:42, Matthew Garrett a ÃcritÂ: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw, for the security team, I think it's fair to ask users to > > upgrade=20 their distribution. If we don't assume that, then why > > don't we support=20 debian 1.0 anymore ??? > > It's fair to ask users to upgrade, but it's not fair to ask them to > do so every 6 months. Many organisations will want to spend 6 > months testing a new release before rolling it out. I've no > objection to releases every 6 months (though I'm not convinced it's > entirely practical within Debian), but we need a support cycle > that's longer than that. Ubuntu supports each release for 18 > months, even though they release every 6 months. Do we have the > resources to do that?
your quoting is not fair btw ... you forgot the : > > 6 month may be short, but between 6 month and 3 years there is some > > place. part. it's quite obvious (to me at least) that 6 month is not suitable for debian. but 1 year seems fine. and one upgrade per year seems fair to me. isn't it ? -- ÂOÂ Pierre Habouzit ÂÂO OOO http://www.madism.org
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