On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 20:34:04 -0400 Federico Grau <donf...@casagrau.org> wrote: > Adding to this thread/bug-report per salt project and Debian packaging, salt > is unfortunately probably not a good candidate for the Debian ecosystem. > > > The salt project current (2023-04) published lifecycle only lists 1.5 years of > support for typical releases. After that their "extended life support" is > really "best-effort technical support for customers" with "No bug fixes, [or] > security fixes". > > This is clearly short of the Debian stable target support period of 3 years. > >
GNOME has way less official security support a period. If Debian only shipped programs that have upstream security support for 3 years then we could as well stop shipping most of Debian. The point of Debian is to provide the security support. Cheers, Alban