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Re: Bits from the Security Team



Hi,

Paul Wise:
> Debian doesn't support skipping releases right now and I expect if we
> support releases for a longer amount of time that won't change.
> 
> We don't yet do any testing for upgrades from oldstable2testing etc so
> there will probably be some broken things, perhaps we should?
> 
Prepare to not find most problems if you just do automated testing.

IMHO the decision to designate release N to be a LTS release has too be
made at release time of N+1 _at_the_latest_, so maintainers know that they
may not remove their "old" upgrade script snippets.

-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs

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