Fwd: jessie-backports discontinued
Hello,
I saw the security support for jessie-backports has been stopped.
To be honest, I did not realize that there is no LTS security support
for backports, and I do use it!
Maybe it's an idea to find ways to add backports to the LTS support in
the future?
Many of the packages will have the same version in oldstable I guess.
And we could try to stimulate the versions are the same.
(Maybe we could even do the same for backports-sloppy in LTS: use the
same version as in stable)
With regards,
Paul van der Vlis
-------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------
Onderwerp: jessie-backports discontinued
Opnieuw-verstuurd-datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:01:21 +0200
Opnieuw-verstuurd-door: Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@deb.at>
Opnieuw-verstuurd-naar: debian-backports-announce@lists.debian.org
Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:29:26 +0200
Van: Rhonda D'Vine <rhonda@debian.org>
Aan: debian-backports-announce@lists.debian.org
With jessie entering LTS we are following up with shutting down
jessie-backports (and jessie-backports-sloppy). We deprecated LTS
support for backports already with the release of stretch, and a thread
that we started on debian-backports about it didn't raise any new ideas
how to make this working, so if you are using backports on jessie we
suggest you to take this as a strong recommendation to finally do the
upgrade to stretch.
Almost 2000 packages were uploaded to jessie-backports during its life
cycle, and nearly 100 to jessie-backports-sloppy. We thank all the
contributors for their continued effort to keep these package in a good
shape, which added to the usefulness of the Debian ecosystem.
The suites will soon be moved to the archive, no new upload will get
processed, and it is planned to get removed from the regular mirror
network to reduce confusion about continuing support of it.
Enjoy,
Rhonda on behalf of the backports ftp-master team
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