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Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?



On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Camaleón:
>> 
>> I will try to keep lenny until reaches its end of life, which should
>> happen when wheezy comes out.
> 
> NACK. Security support for stable releases ends one year after stable+1:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
> 
> 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:

"(...) 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)."

So it seems to be feasible an update from lenny to wheezy, or so it 
seemed to me after reading the aforementioned note :-)

I understand this is not the norm, but an exception for lenny in order to 
accomodate to the new development cycle.

>> Now I feel old.
> 
> I feel old because squeeze is the fifth Debian release I have used. 8-)

True is that Lenny is my first Debian but in the meantime I started to 
feeling older in openSUSE since 2003 ;-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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