On 2013-05-09 14:09:41 +0100 (+0100), David Goodenough wrote:
> As releases tend to be every other year, and they still support
> one release back, and as 7.0 was only just released, that gives
> you at least 4 years.
That's not entirely true. Debian *tries* to release every two years
at the moment, though it has often wound up taking longer to iron
out the remaining release-critical bugs and installer issues than
intended so this is sometimes more like 2.5 years (Wheezy only took
roughly 27 months, so it was fairly close to the mark). However
security support is only a year after the following release, so you
get somewhere around 3 to 3.5 years depending on how long the next
release takes to happen...
http://www.debian.org/security/faq#lifespan
Keep in mind though that it's a misconception that Ubuntu provides
the same kind of security support as Debian on their LTS releases.
It's like comparing Apples and Oranges. Security support in Ubuntu
does not generally cover their Universe package repository (which is
mostly made up of packages imported from Debian's main repository),
but rather only applies to Ubuntu's "main" repository (a much
smaller subset of packages).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official_Support
It also used to be that Ubuntu's LTS only covered "server" packages
for up to 5 years and dropped support for "desktop" packages after 3
years, but these days that's at least no longer the case.
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