Hello, I saw the security support for jessie-backports has been stopped.
To be honest, I did not realize that there is no LTS security support for backports, and I do use it! Maybe it's an idea to find ways to add backports to the LTS support in the future? Many of the packages will have the same version in oldstable I guess. And we could try to stimulate the versions are the same. (Maybe we could even do the same for backports-sloppy in LTS: use the same version as in stable) With regards, Paul van der Vlis -------- Doorgestuurd bericht -------- Onderwerp: jessie-backports discontinued Opnieuw-verstuurd-datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 06:01:21 +0200 Opnieuw-verstuurd-door: Rhonda D'Vine <[email protected]> Opnieuw-verstuurd-naar: [email protected] Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:29:26 +0200 Van: Rhonda D'Vine <[email protected]> Aan: [email protected] With jessie entering LTS we are following up with shutting down jessie-backports (and jessie-backports-sloppy). We deprecated LTS support for backports already with the release of stretch, and a thread that we started on debian-backports about it didn't raise any new ideas how to make this working, so if you are using backports on jessie we suggest you to take this as a strong recommendation to finally do the upgrade to stretch. Almost 2000 packages were uploaded to jessie-backports during its life cycle, and nearly 100 to jessie-backports-sloppy. We thank all the contributors for their continued effort to keep these package in a good shape, which added to the usefulness of the Debian ecosystem. The suites will soon be moved to the archive, no new upload will get processed, and it is planned to get removed from the regular mirror network to reduce confusion about continuing support of it. Enjoy, Rhonda on behalf of the backports ftp-master team
