On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > I'm really not sure that teaching people to ignore apt warnings is the > best way to tell them that they need to upgrade. IMO this is mixing two > topics, in a bad way. > > At least I would have appreciated if the signing key would have been > valid a bit longer, maybe 2-4 weeks, so people have some more time to > safely do upgrades. > > For announcing that people should upgrade we do have several channels, > be it mailinglists or our bits of Debian news blog as well as > www.debian.org.
As we have seen with this release and previous ones, a lot of people don't pay attention to these channels unfortunately... > Also, we moved the suite from ftp.d.o to archive.d.o, so people do need > to change their sources.list… this alone should also make it clear > enough that squeeze is, well, archived. ... which is why this is so important. Also, I note that squeeze-lts is still present on the mirrors but is empty. I don't have a squeeze system to test if someone with only squeeze-lts in their sources.list would get any errors or not though. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-lts/ Also, ISTR that Ubuntu have a direct-to-apt method for telling users that their system is or will soon be EOL. Does anyone have any details for that? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise