Re: [Hampshire] Debian Sarge security updates

On Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 22:36:19 +0100, john lewis wrote:

> Q: How long will security updates be provided?
>
> A: The security team tries to support a stable distribution for about
> one year after the next stable distribution has been released, except
> when another stable distribution is released within this year. It is
> not possible to support three distributions; supporting two
> simultaneously is already difficult enough.

In practise it may be less than that, already we've released some
updates for Etch and not the corresponding updates for Sarge. Of
course most of those have been "low risk", but it's worth noticing..

Steve
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