Re: Updating fis-gtm package to 6.1
Hi Bhaskar,
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:42:26PM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote:
>
> >I'll bow to Bhaskar on making the case for how many versions is
> >reasonable to have in the future as we maintain a sliding window
> >of them.
>
> [KSB] Since a GT.M release is frozen for all time once it's
> released, one answer is as many releases as we have disk for.
This is definitely not the answer from a Debian perspective. A frozen
upstream version does not mean that the Debian package might remain
static. There might be bugs we need to care for in some Debian version,
you might need to rebuild the package due to changes in preconditions
and there might be security issues. As I said: Our security team will
definitely veto if we start throwing in a plenty of old versions of a
specific software.
> Another answer is that although we periodically get e-mails from
> people with five and ten year old releases, we normally consider
> releases to have a two year window of peak use, and maintaining
> three years' worth is a good number. That will probably translate
> to about ten releases.
I guess we can not provide support for "periodical e-mail requests
for >5 year old releases". It is perfectly doable to follow the latest
releases but if you have this kind of support level you need to pay
somebody and this is not the official Debian approach. In any case
you have a fallback to
http://snapshot.debian.org/
where you can download any past released Debian package. But the pure
existence of a Debian package is not a *maintained* Debian package in
terms of providing security report and answering bug reports. For this
kind we need some different deal with customers who might need this.
> there is more snow in this weekend's forecast.
I'd be really happy if you would share some snow with Germany. ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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