Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-10 Thread Martin Wodrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb: [Martin Wodrich] IIRC security-support for sarge started befor its release. But only one month before the release. That depends on your definition of support. Ok, thats true. I mean the posibility of security

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven 'Rae the Git' Grounsell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.09.1851 +0200]: Also, you are IMHO ignoring, that Debian is one of the _very_ few distros, that provides _seamless_ upgrades between even major releases. No matter how seamless, dist-upgrades require a lot of time for

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Lupe Christoph
The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch, starts, whatever happens first. This is equivalent to saying We will rip security support for oldstable from under your feet at any time

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lupe Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.09.1022 +0200]: The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch, starts, whatever happens first. This is equivalent to saying

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Jan Lühr
(open letter to the debian security team) Greetings,.. on friday, 8th july 2005 07:58 Martin Schulze wrote: [...] The Debian project confirms that the security infrastructure for both the current release Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (alias sarge) and the former release 3.0 (alias woody) is working

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Lupe Christoph
On Saturday, 2005-07-09 at 10:37:27 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lupe Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.09.1022 +0200]: The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: So in essence the announcement says screw you, commercial customers. Please don't do that. It makes promoting Debian awkward. are you aware that we are talking about *oldstable* here? it was released july 2002, i think if it is

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Sven 'Rae the Git' Grounsell
Robert Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0200, Lupe Christoph wrote: So in essence the announcement says screw you, commercial customers. Please don't do that. It makes promoting Debian awkward. are you aware that we are talking about *oldstable*

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Wodrich] IIRC security-support for sarge started befor its release. But only one month before the release. That depends on your definition of support. The testing security team was working hard to secure it a long time before sarge was released.

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Sven 'Rae the Git' Grounsell] Also, you are IMHO ignoring, that Debian is one of the _very_ few distros, that provides _seamless_ upgrades between even major releases. This is a slight exaggeration, as this do not really work very seamlessly for packages where the configuration was changed.

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-08 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 at 01:58:40AM -0400, Martin Schulze wrote: The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch, starts, whatever happens first. Now I LOVE Debian a lot. It is my

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-08 Thread Horst Pflugstaedt
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:33:29AM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 at 01:58:40AM -0400, Martin Schulze wrote: The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch,

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-08 Thread Martin Wodrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip Hofmeister schrieb: The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch, starts, whatever happens first. Now I LOVE Debian a lot. It

Re: Debian Security Support in Place

2005-07-08 Thread Martin Wodrich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Horst Pflugstaedt schrieb: Now I LOVE Debian a lot. It is my favorite distro, and I hope this isn't seen as a flame. But, two Debian releases in one year? That's kind of funny grins. IIRC security-support for sarge started befor its release.