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.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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