, 2003-02-12
Red Hat and Mandrake are cutting support for older versions of their Linux distributions... The results will be a security nightmare for the Internet.
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New Linux Support Policies are Ominous
2003-02-16
debian user (3 replies)
debian user (3 replies)
>support debacle. On September 14th, 2000, the Debian project
>announced that, as of September 30th, support for Debian 2.1
>would be dropped entirely.
I'm afraid you fail to mention that the period was extended please read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-secu
rity-announce-2000/msg00043.html
The security team _did_ ask for feedback on the matter on the original announcement (http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-sec
urity-announce-2000/msg00041.html)
In any case, Debian is a volunteer-based organisation, if you want security support to be increased, please commit to it. However, for the time being, you might like to know that the Security Team did ask users to fill in a survey regarding security support
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-d
evel-announce-200211/msg00001.html)
The results were posted recently (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-d
evel-announce-200302/msg00010.html) and the outcome was (quoting Martin Schulze):
"(...) This means that we support potato for
additional 12 months after the release of woody, which is much more than users can expect from a group of volunteers who only work on the system for the sake of it.
However, since investigating, correcting and fixing packages for two entirely different code bases needs to be done, supporting woody and potato is very time consuming and you should not expect security updates for potato after the end of June 2003. You should have upgraded to woody anyway."
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