Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
> Siju George wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous
>> release will be made for an year more.
>> Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as
>> soon as possible?
> Only security updates will be made to Etch, for still nine more
> months. Yet, as Lenny is stable now, it also won't get new features.
> I don't think it is wise to run Etch when the security support ends,
> so upgrading before January 2010 seems sane to me.
> Yet, of course do take time to plan and test your update cycle
> appropriately, don't wait until the last day.
>
> Sjoerd
But I have on my Pentium I or II (?) PC box a Debian Etch that I can't
to upgrade to Lenny because of this bug (?):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517986
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