Re: Bug#463860: lenny+half (Re: Bug#463860: any chance to see this fixed in .26 in lenny?
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:47:13PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On 2009-05-07, maximilian attems <max@stro.at> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:25:25PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >>
> >> > i would have been happier to push the soon to come 2.6.30 for lenny+half,
> >> > but that looks impossible due to the multiple security support
> >> > that our team currently has to handle going from
> >> > oldstable 2.6.18 and 2.6.24, stable 2.6.26 and of course
> >> > the easy 2.6.29 in sid.
> >>
> >> hm, so do you think lenny+half will not happen or how should I understand
> >> that? I assume it will not be much easier once .30 is in sid, because 2
> >> months later, there will be .31 in sid and you'd have to take care for 5
> >> kernel versions again?!
> >
> > the point is that lenny+half is delayed up until manpower is freed
> > by no longer supporting the etch linux-2.6 images.
> > that contradicts somehow the lenny+half intention as by that time
> > typicaly squeeze starts to get mass installed.
>
> Support for etch+half was limited to three months, so ends by 14th
> May.
My understanding/expectation was that etchnhalf support would
terminate at the same time as etch - and I don't think we communicated
anything to the contrary to our users:
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg00003.html
- http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/etchnhalf
Personally, I view the "nhalf" release as a way to make an old release
viable for a longer period of time - letting change-adverse users
avoid a mass upgrade when they really just need newer hardware. This
class of user isn't looking to migrate to the newest stable release -
they want to stay exactly where they are for as long as they
(reasonable and securely) can. So, for this class of users, the
availability of a usable squeeze isn't really relevant, other than as
a ticking clock for the end of etch support.
I of course realize that there are other classes of users that may
benefit from an 'nhalf' release (e.g., those who just want latest
stable to work on their hardware), but I'd always assumed this
change-adverse crowd would be the most significant percentage, and
therefore the crowd we'd want to target. Now that etchnhalf has been
out a while, it would be great if we could collect some meaningful
data here..
--
dann frazier
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