On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:36:46PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > I reported #468765 about a questionable statement on www.debian.org. Frank > Lichtenheld wants this to be discussed. > > This statement is in a security announcement. Martin Schulze confirmed that he > wrote the statement. Does the security team think that oldstable security > support duration is something to be proud of? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468765 I think you misunderstand our policies. You claim in your bug report that Ubuntu, for example, supports a distribution for 1.5 years, while we only support it for 1 year. That is incorrect. Sarge (oldstable) was originally released in early June, 2005. By the time support is retired at the end of this month, it will have received nearly 3 full years of support. We do this for *every* release, too, not just for some "LTS" releases. Try getting security support for Ubuntu Breezy Badger. It was released 4 months after sarge, but support was terminated 11 months ago. You're damn right we're proud to be able to support a release for 3 years. noah
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