Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, Am 13.02.2016 um 09:23 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hi, > > On Freitag, 12. Februar 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: [...] >> For now it should be clear that Wheezy LTS will be supported >> until the end of May 2018. > > Sadly, if you only read the "Debian 6.0 Long Term Support reaching end-of- >

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:19:02PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 11.02.2016 um 19:09 schrieb Miroslav Skoric: > > On 02/10/2016 10:17 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > >> > >> so, are you prepared for valentine's day massacre? > >> > > > > Actually not: It is Wheezy (7.9) now, and I

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

[ I am subscribed to debian-lts. No need to CC me ] Am 11.02.2016 um 20:36 schrieb Moritz Mühlenhoff: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:19:02PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote: >> Am 11.02.2016 um 19:09 schrieb Miroslav Skoric: >>> On 02/10/2016 10:17 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>> so,

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/10/2016 10:17 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: so, are you prepared for valentine's day massacre? Actually not: It is Wheezy (7.9) now, and I predict its valentine's day massacre to approach in few years. Btw, when is the end of life for Wheezy LTS? or have you tried something

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, On Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: > > In the light of the recent confusion about what "February 2016" means > > you should really communicate a fixed date upfront. > Since there were no objections against ending Squeeze LTS at the end of > February 2016, May 2018 implies

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Am 12.02.2016 um 01:08 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hi, > > On Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: >>> In the light of the recent confusion about what "February 2016" means >>> you should really communicate a fixed date upfront. >> Since there were no objections against ending

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

El 08/02/16 a las 23:02, Santiago Ruano Rincón escribió: > Hi, > > I've committed to https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git/ > the first draft for the announcement about the Squeeze LTS EOF. Please, > take a look on it. > > I haven't proposed a release date yet. Next Sunday,

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

> > I haven't proposed a release date yet. Next Sunday, 14th February should > > be Ok? > > The publicity team ask to schedule the announce for next Friday. Does > anyone disagree? Not here. Just want to say thank you all for working on the announcement. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' :

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/09/2016 05:04 AM, Bret Busby wrote: End of Life on Valentines Day? So, Valentines Day means death to many lifes? A Valentines Day Massacre? (Someone had to say it...) On 09.02.16 17:05, Miroslav Skoric wrote: To prevent the 'end of life' I upgraded my old comp to wheezy some time

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > My personal preference is also at the end of the month. But I believe that > Ben sort of officially declared end of support for the squeeze kernel > already. Ben has "just" closed a lot of linux bugs which only affected 2.6.32 with a

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, El 09/02/16 a las 10:33, Holger Levsen escribió: > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > My personal preference is also at the end of the month. Mine too. > > But I believe that > > Ben sort of officially declared end of support for the squeeze kernel > >

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/09/2016 08:51 AM, Guido Günther wrote: Regarding the date do you propose we end support on the 14th sharp or on 2015-02-29? I'd vote for the later to give people some more time to upgrade and us to prepare at least the answers for the missing bits of [1] (so we can have an updated

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, > Additionally, I think it's fine to handle any updates to Squeeze on a > consultancy basis, but then not via the official mirrors. i agree, otherwise people wouldn't upgrade to wheezy at all because "they will keep fixing the big things in squeeze" - i observe similar behavior with

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 2016-02-09 08:51:20, Holger Levsen wrote: > There's one irritation though, which I could not fix yet: if support for > Squeeze LTS ends now or on the last day of February, and support for Wheezy > will be taken over from the security team on April 26th, what will the LTS > team do in the

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/09/2016 02:51 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: There's one irritation though, which I could not fix yet: if support for Squeeze LTS ends now or on the last day of February, and support for Wheezy will be taken over from the security team on April 26th, what will the LTS team do in the maintime?

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > Then I think we should not miss the opportunity to ask for more funding for > the LTS effort, so I'd suggest adding a paragraph linking to > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Funding - patch (#3) for that attached. rather obviously, contributing

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi Markus, On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Markus Koschany wrote: > I have added a new paragraph to > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development#Switching_to_the_next_LTS_release cool, thanks! > Who should be contacted and what should be done to ensure that the > infrastructure works as expected

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/09/2016 12:20 PM, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: I'd definitely agree with this. I, as a user, expected a formal notice of end of support, rather than a quiet whimper into support end. Finding out LTS ended officially 3 days ago after-the-fact is.. unpleasant. The wiki still states "Debian 6

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi Santiago, On Montag, 8. Februar 2016, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > I've committed to > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git/ the first > draft for the announcement about the Squeeze LTS EOF. Please, take a look > on it. thanks for your work on this! I've attached

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Op Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:47:49AM +0100 schreef santiag...@riseup.net: > El 09/02/16 a las 10:33, Holger Levsen escribió: > > On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > My personal preference is also at the end of the month. > > Mine too. Mine too. (Is this a vote? ;-) Bye,

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

But I believe that Ben sort of officially declared end of support for the squeeze kernel already. [...] "Debian 6.0 Long Term Support has now ended, and the 'linux-2.6' source package will no longer be updated. This bug is being closed on the assumption that it does not affect the kernel

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:02:41PM +0100, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > I've committed to https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git/ > the first draft for the announcement about the Squeeze LTS EOF. Please, > take a look on it. Why? > I haven't proposed a release date yet.

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 02/09/2016 05:04 AM, Bret Busby wrote: End of Life on Valentines Day? So, Valentines Day means death to many lifes? A Valentines Day Massacre? (Someone had to say it...) :) To prevent the 'end of life' I upgraded my old comp to wheezy some time ago, despite being told to throw the

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 09/02/16 09:02, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > I haven't proposed a release date yet. Next Sunday, 14th February should > be Ok? How long after the announcement will Squeeze be supported for? I must admit to not having been aware of a deadline for it being phased out until now, though that's

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 09/02/2016, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > Hi, > > I've committed to > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git/ > the first draft for the announcement about the Squeeze LTS EOF. Please, > take a look on it. > > I haven't proposed a release date yet.

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

Hi, On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:02:41PM +0100, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > Hi, > > I've committed to https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/announcements.git/ > the first draft for the announcement about the Squeeze LTS EOF. Please, > take a look on it. Reads great! > > I haven't

Re: Preparing to announce Squeeze LTS end-of-life

On 09/02/16 15:22, Christopher Samuel wrote: > I must admit to not having been aware of a deadline for it being phased > out until now, though that's probably just because I've not had the time > to pay close enough attention. Apparently I completely failed to either find, read or remember: