Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 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.
We don't have enough human power to fix all the RC bugs that crop up
in stable during its lifetime, I doubt maintainers are ever going to
want or be able to support oldstable for longer than we do already.
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
As far as support for oldstable on security issues goes, you might
want to take a look at these pages:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00006.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00029.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00030.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/msg00033.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2011/10/threads.html#00001
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bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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