Re: Reminder: EOL for bullseye-backports*

Alexander Wirt <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Jul 2024 12:15:30 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi, 

> Thanks a lot for work maintaining debian backports.
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > as you may now oldstable is only supported 1 year [1]. For
> > bookworm this was 2024-06-10. We added a small grace period afterwards,
> > but we will not allow updates after this point. We will also remove the
> > Thanks for your attention
> 
> The security and the release team have agreed on adjusting the policy
> to maintain oldstable for three years after the initial release. So
> bullseye will be a regular Debian release until August 14th 2024 [1].
> Would it be possible to do the same for backports, aligning the policy
> with the regular oldstable release? I am sure that change will make it
> easier for users (and developers) to remember the Debian release life
> cycle.

That call is not on the backports ftpmaster side. Someone has to do the
maintainer work, last time we asked consense was that the maintainers
don't want to support two releases for such a long period. 

But I will provide a survey to collect the actual state. 

Alex

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