On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:53:47AM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > But I'd like to stress we need *all* developers to be involved fix bugs
> > (esp. security) in their packages in all the supported releases, not only
> > in current-stable.
>
> I am afraid I am not on board for this. I do not agree with requiring
> me to support old software for years and years after I've stopped using
> it. It is not something that interests me as a technical challenge;
> instead the task is tedious and boring.
>

(I don't want this to sound rude or smartass but genuinely interested
because I'm surprised more DDs think like you, as I discovered in the
DreamHost thread)

What do you do with the 1 year of support Debian currently gives to
oldstable? It's also 1 year you stopped using that version, so no technical
challenge either.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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