On Ma, 27 aug 13, 10:18:53, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Alternately, we could be far more aggressive about removing packages from > oldstable, I suppose, but I don't think that's a good idea; that just > leaves our users with exactly the sorts of choices that we're trying to > avoid. I think it's much cleaner and better for our users to offer full > security support and then retire the whole distribution at the same time. > It makes planning considerably easier, among other things. Why not add something like this to the DSA: Unfortunately due to lack of resources there will be no updated packages for oldstable. For contributing a fix yourself contact the Debian LTS Team. Maybe even not include it in the DSA, but a special new adivsory, since DSAs have a lot of boilerplate and people may not be actually reading them. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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