Re: Security support proposed workflow for the very-old-stable (was: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/20/2013 05:17 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: E. g: - In January 2014 we release Debian 8.0. We make this an LTS release, meaning it would get updates for, say 3 years (until January 2017), and security updates for 5 years (until January 2019). - In February 2015 we release Debian 9.0. Non-LTS

Re: Security support proposed workflow for the very-old-stable (was: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:33:52PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: My initial idea wasn't to never *impose* the extended security maintenance to all DDs. Instead, we could do it on a best-effort basis, collectively. Meaning that anyone willing to do security fixes for the EOL distribution (one