[ Moving it to -lts to continue the discussion ] Hi,
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > cf http://wiki.debian.org/LTS > > There is an on-going confusion in the wider Debian community about whether > squeeze is still supported or EOL. Where did you notice any confusion? > The squeeze-lts work does not cover all of squeeze -- there are significant > limitations in the packages and archs covered. It would be inappropriate to > indicate to users that other archs were supported by saying that squeeze is > still a supported release. It's also inappropriate to say that it's "EOL" when 98% of the users who are using amd64/i386 are still covered. Yes there are packages which are unsupported in Squeeze but very much like there are unsupported packages in Wheezy right now: Squeeze: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-security-support.git/plain/security-support-ended.deb6 Wheezy: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-security-support.git/plain/security-support-ended.deb7 + chromium cf https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776904 It's just that the list expands over time as more and more packages get unsupportable when upstream no longer supports them. And we try to avoid this by backporting newer upstream version when there's no other solution (we did this recently for wireshark in squeeze). (And we would love to shorten the list of unsupported packages if we had more resources) > >From the very first line of the wiki page you linked to: > > LTS (Long Term Support) is a project for providing security > patches after oldstable reached its end of life. > > which would agree with distro-info-data in stating that squeeze is EOL. Or that we should rephrase our description. We are working hand in hand with security team to provide a continuity in security support. EOL is in 2016 but in the interim, there are restrictions in what is truly supported. > As much as squeeze-lts is a great initiative, it's not true to say that > squeeze is still a supported release. I guess that makes it EOL and it wants > an EOL date that reflects when that change happened: 2014-05-31 I disagree. But I really don't care about distro-info so I will not discuss this further in this context. That said I believe it's important to clarify the situation of squeeze. Your "EOL" description is misleading (and not really thankful of the work that Debian LTS team members have put into Squeeze). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
