Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

[D G Teed <donald.teed@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:

> Camaleón:

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>>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012.
>>
>> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how
>> it used to be but now aren't we based on a 2-year of release fixed
>> cycle? :-?
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729
>>
>> In that announcement it can be read:

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> Interesting, I don't remember that at all.

Before installing a system, I carefully read what is the estimated/
foreseen EOL for it. It's a must for me because I have servers to
maintain and I can't go reinstalling every year.

> I can only speculate about this, but I don't think this announcement is
> relevant any more. The document is from July 2009 and predicted/promised
> a squeeze release in early 2010. For that case only the authors promised
> that you could skip the squeeze release. What actually happened is that
> it took another whole year to release squeeze.

Dunno, but I hope the comittment is stil valid.

On the wiki for Lenny, it says it is one year supported
before EOL after a new stable comes out was the norm but
this could change... 

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny#Debian.2BAC8-Lenny_Life_cycle

That wiki was updated last on Feb 7, 2011.

You cannot skip a version in upgrades, but of course
you could in re-installs.  A debian version doesn't have
to be upgraded a major version every year - it is more like
once every 2 or 3 years depending on the release times.