On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 20:09:16 +0200, Nigel Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> This is just a comment, as some folks have said that Sarge is a thing of the > past, no longer supported, etc. > > I've just booted my Sarge install to check out deps for a certain package. As > usual while booted into a distro, I run apt-get update, and Sarge is > obviously still getting updates as an apt-get dist-upgrade shows 85 upgraded > packages, and the need to get some 70.2MB of archives. > > The last time I ran apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, according to my > ~/History-files was on 20080109. I can't seriously believe it was that long > ago, but time passes rapidly these days. > > Anyway the thing is that my Sarge still appears to be getting updates, > although not the current stable (Etch) install. Security support for Sarge stopped at the end of March. http://www.uk.debian.org/News/2008/20080229 -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]