Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> We are already no longer supporting iceweasel in squeeze:
> http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
> At one point we stopped supporting clamav in oldstable:
> http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1497
> At one point there was an experiment to express the lack of security
> support for specific packages using debtags. This seems to have been
> dropped but you can see that sql-ledger and kfreebsd weren't supported
> at one point:
> http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/tagindex/secteam.html
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2008-June/001795.html
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436161
Yeah, I know. But the number of such exceptions is relatively limited,
enough so that we can issue security advisories saying they're not
supported any more. It's not a comfortable compromise, but it seems to be
a workable one. The LTS security policy is quite a bit broader in its
implications.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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