[1451] in athena10
Re: Dapper Support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Mon Mar 9 18:51:46 2009
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:50:44 -0400
On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> Hmm...I'd like it to be a supported operation to just run Debathena on
> LTS releases. Why don't we shoot to support LTS releases for 2.5
> years -
> giving people 6 months to upgrade from one LTS to the next? SIPB will
> probably supporting a Debian release for at least that long anyway.
After offline clarification, I'm fine with this.
However, I note that the 2.5 year date for Dapper was 1/1/09. I seem
to recall hearing complaints before that date that it was getting hard
to build/support Dapper packages already...
-Jon
