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Author: Martin Steigerwald
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] devuan LTS
Am Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2015, 22:43:54 schrieb Gregory Nowak:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:25:10AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > The year of updates was general availability. When that ended, regular
> > squeeze archives got moved away, and a new repository, squeeze-lts, was
> > created. And it's still alive and supported, on a set of architectures
> > reduced to amd64 and i386.
>
> Something else I wasn't aware of, thanks for pointing it out. So let
> me rephrase this as something that debian has, and that I would like
> to see continued in devuan if possible. I think James' proposal isn't
> a bad one. Maintaining a release three-four releases back with a year
> after that for updates comes out to about five years if I understand
> what James said correctly. That sounds fine to me.


Please note tough, that Debian LTS is at least partly a sponsored / paid
effort. I think cause many Debian developers are not that interested into
backporting security fixes to Debian releases they themselves probably do
not use anymore.

Ciao,
--
Martin