Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

[Johnathon Tinsley <kirrus@kirrus.co.uk>]

> > > But I believe that
> > > Ben sort of officially declared end of support for the squeeze kernel
> > > already.
> > [...]
> > "Debian 6.0 Long Term Support has now ended, and the 'linux-2.6' source
> > package will no longer be updated.  This bug is being closed on the
> > assumption that it does not affect the kernel versions in newer Debian
> > releases.
> > [...]"
>
> I've started to draft the announce to be consistent with this. But I
> think there is a problem with the imprecise date (February 2016) on the
> wiki. Some of us, and more important, some users may thought it was at
> the end of the month.

I'd definitely agree with this. I, as a user, expected a formal notice 
of end of support, rather than a quiet whimper into support end. Finding 
out LTS ended officially 3 days ago after-the-fact is.. unpleasant.

The wiki still states "Debian 6 “Squeeze” until February 2016", which 
means I expected a fixed date to be announced soon, rather than just 
hearing "eh, done now" sentiments on a mailing list.

Regards,
Johnathon