On 2014-04-28 23:44, Brian Kroth wrote: > I just want to say thank you for this. It's very helpful for large > installs. > > Cheers, > Brian >
Hi Brian, At this time, long term support is actually handled by separate group, which is neither the Debian Release Team nor the Debian Security Team. I have forwarded your mail to the people behind the Squeeze LTS effort. :) ~Niels > Neil McGovern <ne...@debian.org> 2014-04-24 11:47: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ >> Long term support for Debian 6.0 Announced pr...@debian.org >> April 24th, 2014 http://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140424 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> The Debian project is pleased to announce that although regular security >> support for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name "squeeze") will be >> terminated on 31 May, long term support for the distribution is going to >> be extended until February 2016, i.e. five years after the initial >> release. This effort is driven by various interested parties / companies >> which require longer security support. >> >> Squeeze-LTS will only support i386 and amd64, rather than the full range >> of architectures. Users of other architectures are encouraged to upgrade >> to Debian 7 ("wheezy"). Additionally, a few packages will not be >> supported in the LTS version of the release, primarily some web-based >> applications which cannot be supported for the additional timeframe. A >> tool will be provided to detect such unsupported packages. >> >> The release will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a >> separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a >> success (with some overlap in people involved). Companies using Debian >> who are interested in aiding this effort should contact >> <t...@security.debian.org>. Importantly, the success of Squeeze-LTS will >> be used to judge the viability of LTS support for Debian 7 ("wheezy") >> and Debian 8 ("jessie"). >> >> >> About Debian >> ------------ >> >> The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who >> volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free >> operating system Debian. >> >> >> Contact Information >> ------------------- >> >> For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at >> http://www.debian.org/, send mail to <pr...@debian.org>, or contact the >> stable release team at <debian-release@lists.debian.org>. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/535f33ab.3020...@thykier.net
