Re: Debian's release support policy
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:47:55AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:19:19PM -0800, ow wrote:
> > Something like "we support our releases for 24 months (or whatever)
> > from the date of the release" would be very helpful, I think, to all
> > Debian users (and developers). This way everyone knows what to expect
> > well in advance and has enough time to prepare, there are no surprises.
>
> OK, I'll speak generally for the group based on what I've seen in the
> past: When a new release hits, security updates will be available for
> the distro for 2 weeks.
>
> Anything beyond that is because some large site has brought it to the
> security team's attention that it's going to take longer than that to
> migrate due to some sticky, site-specific issues that need to be
> worked out before they roll it out to all thier machines.
I don't think we'd ever inflict something as short as 2 weeks on our
users, large sites or no large sites. "A few" months is about the
minimum the developer community would accept, IMHO.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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