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Debian derivatives census: Debian 6.0 (squeeze) long-term security support terminated



Hi all,

I note that some Debian derivatives are based on Debian 6.0 (squeeze).
The Debian LTS team has recently warned about[1] and then
announced[2] the termination of support for Debian 6.0.

This means that you will need to provide your own security support for
your users or transition your distribution (and users) to a newer
version of Debian such as 7 (wheezy) or 8 (jessie). Debian wheezy still
receives normal security support until April and then LTS support until
May 2018. If you have already switched to wheezy and stopped supporting
squeeze-based releases, please update your census page to reflect that.

Those of you who are or will be providing security updates for old
Debian-based distributions might want to consider pooling your
financial and engineering resources in order to provide longer term
support for superseded Debian releases. Should your distribution or
your distribution's sponsors be willing to help, please take a look at
the documentation for Debian's long-term security support efforts[3].

Please direct any other questions you have to the derivatives list[4] or
IRC channel[5]. We strongly encourage you to join both of these.

     1. https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160212
     2. https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/56D57E60.6010607@debian.org
     3. https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
     4. https://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives
     5. ircs://irc.oftc.net/debian-derivatives

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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