On 06/10/11 00:13, Sythos wrote: > On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:13:33 +0200 > wer...@aloah-from-hell.de wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> a Debian LTS-Version would be sooooo welcome and is definitly >> something that's missing for Debian. >> > > in 18 years Debian released 6 "stable", an avarage of 3 years between a > stable and the next one, i think is already longer than others call > "LTS" a distro. 3 years between stables is already (imho, maybe) too > much, is already an overload of work for maintainers to backport > patches and other on software often classified "old" if not "obsolete" > too. > > The major benefit of opensource software is the "darwin effect", good > software evolve quickly, bad software die, force a maintainer to work > on a software for 2 years more than usual may mean force a unusefull > work, *imho* 3 years are already too much for a lot of enviroments > (like development) > >
Moreover, if you wait to long you may have an important software, with an outdated not upstream supported major version, where backports are not possible because upstream architecture changed completely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e8d2ed8.9090...@rail.eu.org