On 01/23/2018 10:35 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Xan Charbonnet wrote:I can't seem to find it now, but I believe somewhere official there is (or was at one time?) a diagram showing how LTS would allow skipping stable versions:No, that does not and cannot work. LTS is “just” the extension of normal stable-security work, for a subset of architectures and packages.
To clarify, I don't think the idea was to upgrade a given system from Wheezy to Stretch to Bullseye, but to be able to run Wheezy until Stretch was released, and to be able to run Stretch until Bullseye is released.
So it's not about upgrading, but about not having to qualify a new version of all software every 2 years. Every 4 years is a big improvement, which I understood to be the goal of LTS.
Given that wheezy currently gets the most amount of security fixes, most quickly too, for several noticeable packages, it’s not unjusti‐ fied to want to continue running it, and quite a boon for LTS.
Agreed, of course. My thinking on suggesting a separate *-backports-lts repository is that that makes it clear which backported packages are still receiving security support and which are not.