On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 06:29:59 pm Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > you seem to have missed the second announcement send out... the new plan is > not to freeze this december but rather to come up with a plan when to > freeze (squeeze). No, I am aware of that. > On Montag, 3. August 2009, Steffen Joeris wrote: > > > Debian itself do not support upgrades skipping a major release, so I > > > cannot imagine how Debian-edu can (sanely) do so. > > With the old and now to be discussed plan, the idea was to actually support > skipping a release. Whatever the release team intends, I am fairly sure that etch security support will cease to exist in February (one year after the lenny release). For skipping a release, I don't recall any discussion on how to realise it with regards to security support. > > The question here is not so much the upgrade path, because debian-edu > > doesn't support upgrades, we advice people to reinstall. > > Wrong. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/Upgrades has > instructions how to upgrade. There have been efforts to tell people how to upgrade, but I am fairly certain that the official position has always been that we advice people to reinstall. That is not to say that we try to give them upgrade instructions on a best- effort base. > > However, support (especially security support) is an issue and with that > > in mind, etch is supported until February (one year after the release of > > lenny), by which time we'd need to have a lenny solution. > > Does that mean we have to release our Lenny now within six months? ;-) > C00l. Yes. Cheers Steffen
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