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[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:42:11 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:

> On 07/05/2011 03:45 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:30:03 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> 
>>> [Please Cc me, I am not subscribed.]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am forwarding a discussion from debian-user. I'd love to hear an
>>> official statement about this. AFAICS, this issue hasn't been
>>> explicitly addressed yet and at least one person from debian-user
>>> expects to be able to skip squeeze.
>> 
>> (...)
>> 
>> That one person must be "me".
>> 
>> Yes, I was the one who recently sent the announcement notice to d-u
>> mailing list (it seemed to me that nobody was aware of it...) and 
>> would be nice to know what's the official possition on this matter.
>> 
>> As I didn't read any other notice about this, I expected the
>> statatement made on 2009 still applies. If no, an additional notice
>> stating the new plans would be more than desiderable so people can
>> smoothly deploy their install strategies.
>> 
>> I expected that Lenny (now "oldtstable") is still getting security
>> fixes until Wheezy is released, and once out, it gets dropped.
> 
> The rule is that a release is supported up to the next release + 1 
> year unless the release after the next one comes earlier. So for Lenny 
> that would mean until release date of Squeeze + 1 year (February 6th 
> 2012) unless Wheezy would be released earlier. Obviously Wheezy won't 
> be released before, so Lenny is supported until Febrary next year.

Thanks for replying.

In this specific case the common rule contradicts the official 
announcemnet¹ -made by you- on June 2009 so if something has changed in 
between it would be nice to inform the users about this with a new 
official confirmation so they can know what's your actual planning.

¹http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón