On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:52:35PM +0000, Camaleón 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 commitment is still valid. > > >> I understand this is not the norm, but an exception for lenny in order > >> to accomodate to the new development cycle. > > > > … which didn't happen. > > Again, dunno. I only know what I've read at Debian official > announcements. Seems to me that we (we → Debian) have to improve our > communication skills >:-) >
I've always understood old stable support to last about a year following the new stable release. But I've never read the official statement. This chart shows support lasting slightly over a year on average. And it correlates with my memory. (Which isn't necessarily saying much.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110629182044.GB13335@Deneb.office
