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Re: Debian's release support policy



Paul Johnson writes:
> When Potato went stable, 2 weeks was all the previous distro got.  When
> people complained loudly, security team said "You should have said
> something earlier."

That was before the present network of security build daemons was
developed.  Backported security fixes had to be hand-built for all
architectures.  The security team did not have enough resources to
support more than one release.

IIRC that two weeks was extended to several months as a result of the
complaints.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin



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