On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:04:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Camaleón: > > (...) > > >>> Lenny will reach its EOL in January 2012. > >> > >> Hey, but that was not my understanding for lenny. I know that was how > >> it used to be but now aren't we based on a 2-year of release fixed > >> cycle? :-? > >> > >> http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 > >> > >> In that announcement it can be read: > > (...) > > > Interesting, I don't remember that at all. > > Before installing a system, I carefully read what is the estimated/ > foreseen EOL for it. It's a must for me because I have servers to > maintain and I can't go reinstalling every year. > > > I can only speculate about this, but I don't think this announcement is > > relevant any more. The document is from July 2009 and predicted/promised > > a squeeze release in early 2010. For that case only the authors promised > > that you could skip the squeeze release. What actually happened is that > > it took another whole year to release squeeze. > > Dunno, but I hope the comittment is stil valid. > On the wiki for Lenny, it says it is one year supported before EOL after a new stable comes out was the norm but this could change... <%20http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny#Debian.2BAC8-Lenny_Life_cycle> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny#Debian.2BAC8-Lenny_Life_cycle<%20http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLenny#Debian.2BAC8-Lenny_Life_cycle> That wiki was updated last on Feb 7, 2011. You cannot skip a version in upgrades, but of course you could in re-installs. A debian version doesn't have to be upgraded a major version every year - it is more like once every 2 or 3 years depending on the release times.
