[Tfug] Machine Rehabilitation

Glen Pfeiffer glen at thepfeiffers.net
Fri Jun 15 21:30:47 MST 2007


On 06/14/2007 12:14 PM, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> Debian doesn't do releases in the traditional sense, so the
> question is basically moot.  Basically, the stable release is a
> snapshot of the codebase as a particular point in time
> (specifically, a point in time at which there are a limited
> number of release critical bugs).

You are absolutely correct. The way I was attempting to compare
support for Etch with Ubuntu is like this. Etch will receive
security updates at least until Lenny becomes stable. But how
long after Lenny becomes stable will Etch continue to receive
security updates, if at all?

-- 
Glen





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