> Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> I would like to have a year security support of the package in 
>> old-stable.
>>
>> Background: sometimes the configuration of a desktop is complex 
>> (Kerberos, NFS4, LDAP, etc), so it's not possible for me to do an 
>> upgrade in a short time.
>> For that reasan I would like it when I would have a year to do the 
>> upgrade. I don't care if the supported package is in main or in 
>> backports.
>>
>> When it's not possible to do so, I would like a diskussion about the 
>> "why". We could use the same package in oldstable as in stable.
> 
> That's not really possible.  Google dropped support for the oldstable
> compilers probably 2 years ago now.

Maybe I was not clear enough: I mean in the future.
I would like to have a year to migrate from Wheezy to Jessie.

When you need a newer compiler, I think we should backport a newer
compiler. Please tell us what you need, or what you think you will need
in the near future.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.

-- 
Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen
http://www.vandervlis.nl


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