Re: old stable support due date

[Luis Matos <gass@otiliamatos.pt>]

This information should be available in the current stable distribution
page and on the old stable page.

IMO it is an important information that is not that easy to check.
Also, the updates are not exclusively (but mainly) security.

anyway, thanks for the input.

Ter, 2013-10-15 às 12:17 -0600, Stephen Dowdy escreveu:
> Julien Cristau wrote, On 10/15/2013 11:24 AM:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 17:52:10 +0100, Luis Matos wrote:
> 
> >> Where can the users find the date where the old stable (squeeze) will
> >> stop receiving updates?
> >>
> > See http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
> > squeeze EOL should happen around April or May 2014.
> 
> Luis,
> 
> Or, programmatically (based upon release dates and
> presumed 1 year support period):
> 
>     $ awk -F, '$3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $NF}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
>     2014-05-04
> 
> or...
> 
>     $ awk -F, 'NR==1{print$0} $3=="'$(debian-distro-info --oldstable)'"{print $0}' /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
>     version,codename,series,created,release,eol
>     6.0,Squeeze,squeeze,2009-02-14,2011-02-06,2014-05-04
> 
> ISTM that 'debian-distro-info' would greatly benefit from a mode
> where it prints all/any of the csv fields for a selected codename.
> (obviating the 'awk' blather above)
> 
> e.g.
> 
> *option* = currently unsupported/desired command line option
> 
> $ debian-distro-info --stable *--release*
> 2013-05-04
> 
> $ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--eol*
> 2014-05-04
> (note, the 1 year support from stable release to oldstable eol)
> 
> $ debian-distro-info --oldstable *--version*
> 6.0
> 
> $ debian-distro-info --testing *--version*
> 8.0
> 
> $ debian-distro-info --testing *--release*
> undefined
> 
> (note there's also a contradiction here with the new versioning
> scheme.  i.e. Wheezy is listed as version 7.0, but i think it's
> now supposed to be just "7", as the middle number of a version
> has been deprecated.)
> 
> 
> --stephen
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