Am Freitag, den 12.10.2012, 00:00 +0200 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 11 octobre 2012 22:33 CEST, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> : > > >> > I can confirm the trend for a couple of organisations. The primary > >> > reason that I identified was the retirement of security support for > >> > Lenny and that Lenny packages are removed from many Debian mirrors which > >> > made it difficult to use Lenny machines. IMHO, supporting an OS release > >> > for only 3 years is not long enough. > >> > >> FWIW, it should be noted Ubuntu only supports most packages for 3 years > >> as well. The subset of packages considered for "Server" support is > >> supported for 5, but most people will suggest you follow the LTS upgrade > >> path, which is very similar to Debian Stable's. > > > > Since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the LTS versions are supported for five years on > > the desktop, too. > > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS > > This only applies to "main", right? main + restricted are supported by Canonical. universe + multiverse are supported by the community (in a best effort manner). -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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