Re: Debian LTS?
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> schrieb:
> On mar., 2011-10-04 at 11:59 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recall coming across the proposal/discussion in
>> <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianSecurity/Meetings/2011-01-14>
>> shortly after that wiki page was published, and thought it was something
>> which was worth persuing. I don't *think* I saw a follow-up email about
>> it to debian-private or a -bits mail, so I assume that noone had the time
>> to take it forward, but I thought it was worth checking whether anything
>> had happened.
>
> The link you pasted has a link to
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00006.html
> (which is where reports should be posted, not -private...) which says:
>
> ----
> * Longer security support for Debian stable
>
> Current Debian releases are supported for a year after the next version has
> been released; this tends to come down to around three years in recent times.
> There has been some interest to have Debian stable security supported for
> a longer period of time, say five years. We've explored what conditions such
> support should fulfil, but more discussion needs to happen before it can
> become a reality.
> ----
>
> Basically this didn't happen yet afaict. What lacks is usually time and
> (wo)manpower.
Someone needs to work on organising and creating a foundation (or similar
entity) to fund/pay the person(s) doing the (5-(standard sec life time)
years.
We've said repeatedly that this needs to be organised by someone external
to the security team. If someone wants to see this happen, get to work.
Cheers,
Moritz
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