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Re: Re: Is oldstable security support duration something to be proud of?



This one time, at band camp, Filipus Klutiero said:
> >
> >This one time, at band camp, Filipus Klutiero said:
> >> RHEL and derivatives: 7 years
> >
> >This is longer than Debian.
> >
> >> openSUSE: 2 years
> >> Ubuntu: a bit more complex.
> >> 	1.5 in general
> >> 	LTS releases: 3 on desktop, 5 on server
> >
> >These are all shorter, except for Ubuntu server LTS.
> >  
> No, support for Ubuntu LTS in general is longer. Ubuntu LTS is supported 
> for 3 years on the desktop, which is more than Debian 3.1.

And less than 3.0.

> >So your complaint is that, even though Debian's security team does
> >actually rank in the top half of the examples you put forward (and I'm
> >not even going to discuss the fact that the 2 that do longer security
> >support have paid people doing it, not volunteers), they have nothing
> >to be proud of?
> No. Besides Debian not ranking in the top half, Luk Claes changed the 
> discussion to the total duration of security support. The bug is about 
> the sentence about oldstable security support.
> 
> >  And denigrating the work they do and telling them they
> >have nothing to be proud of is good why?
> It isn't good, which is why I don't do it.

I guess I'm finished with this discussion then.  Trying to counter
things that are just absolutely made up is a waste of time.
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