Re: Bug#746946: wheezy-pu: package distro-info-data/0.23~deb7u1

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Hi Raphael,

>> +    - Correct EOL date of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" to 2014-05-31.
> 
> FWIW, Debian 6 Squeeze is supported for at least 5 years (i.e. 2016-02-06)
> and most likely until Wheezy is no longer supported (i.e. 2016-04-24).
> 
> cf http://wiki.debian.org/LTS

There is an on-going confusion in the wider Debian community about whether 
squeeze is still supported or EOL.

The squeeze-lts work does not cover all of squeeze -- there are significant 
limitations in the packages and archs covered. It would be inappropriate to 
indicate to users that other archs were supported by saying that squeeze is 
still a supported release. 

>From the very first line of the wiki page you linked to:

    LTS (Long Term Support) is a project for providing security
    patches after oldstable reached its end of life. 

which would agree with distro-info-data in stating that squeeze is EOL.

As much as squeeze-lts is a great initiative, it's not true to say that 
squeeze is still a supported release. I guess that makes it EOL and it wants 
an EOL date that reflects when that change happened: 2014-05-31

Stuart

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