Re: Bits from the Security Team

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Paul Wise writes ("Re: Bits from the Security Team"):
> 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.

But, in practice, skip upgrades often work anyway.  I'd encourage
maintainers not to gratuitously break them.  For example, aggressively
removing compatibility code is a bad idea.  (It's bad for our
downstreams too).

> We don't yet do any testing for upgrades from oldstable2testing etc so
> there will probably be some broken things, perhaps we should?

That would be nice but I don't have any effort to do it personally...

Thanks,
Ian.