Re: Debian's release support policy
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:49:21PM -0800, ow wrote:
> Does Debian have an official policy regarding how long security updates
> and critical bug fixes will be provided for a release (e.g. six months,
> one year, etc)?
STFW. 8:o)
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/07/index.en.html
Potato (most recent obsolete branch, which I kind of wish was renamed
"espy" in memory of the late debian developer to which potato was
dedicated) will continue to get security updates until June of this
year. It was released July 13, 2002. One year.
Why so short? Because by the time a tree goes obsolete, the software
is a couple years out of date and becomes a serious burden on the
security team. Additionally, at that point, you have three more
recent trees to choose from. The day the tree you're tracking slips
off into obsolete is the day you need to start drawing up battle plans
to upgrade.
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.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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