Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 08:58 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > Debian supports each release for 5 years, but with a hand-off between > teams at that point. > >> LTS is an "external" approach. > > It's not. (ELTS is.) > In the interest of brevity I was thinking about 1. declaring the one year post-new-stable-release EOL for old-stable-backports. 2. linking to the LTS page on our wiki. Rationale being that users can find the ELTS page from the LTS page. If that doesn't sound like a good approach, or is missing something, please let me know! >> And the backports maintainer decided a few years ago to not support it. > > I have no disagreement with this. LTS + backports doesn't make a whole > lot of sense other than for hardware enablement, and we have an > established way to maintain a backported kernel in LTS now. > Great to hear, I have to confess that I wasn't sure about this :-) > However, the backports.debian.org page does need an update to refer to > buster/bullseye rather than stretch/buster, or to explain the policy in > general terms of release/release+1. > +pending Cheers, Nicholas
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