Re: Bits from the Security Team

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> schrieb:
> Matthias Urlichs wrote...
>
>> 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.
>
> Agreed, but given the long intervals between releases: Waiting until
> wheezy enters that state means at least two years, and I'd expect the
> enthusiasm I've seen for LTS to cool down a lot in that time.

(In case sufficient momentum is reached for squeeze-lts, which *hint* *hint*
needs actual commitment:)
Skipping releases will not be possible/supported, if anyone wants to
upgrade from squeeze-lts to jessie both updates can to be done subsequently
in one maintenance windows.

Cheers,
        Moritz