[SOLVED]Re: How long squeez supported

[emigrant <fromwindowstolinux@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:50 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> emigrant:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >> 
> >> NACK. Debian releases are supported until the next (major) release +
> >> another year. Usually, that's more than one year in total.
> 
> D'ouh. Of course, I meant to write "that's more than two years in
> total".
> 
> > :-(
> > is the life cycle of debian such short?
> 
> Why 'short'? Take a look at this:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history
> 
> Lenny was released in February 2009. If squeeze is released, say in
> October 2010, Lenny will go out of support in October 2011. That's a
> lifecycle of two years and eight months.
> 
> > isn't lenny available for a long time now? i understand it is a major
> > release.
> > and isn't squeez a major release too?
> 
> Yes and yes. Major releases have code names, point releases just
> increment the version number by a fraction.
> 
> J.

Thanks a lot Jochen Schulz