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[Ian Gilfillan <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the dates listed at https://wiki.debian.org/LTS should be used 
as guidelines.
Squeeze "LTS" will be supported until Feb 2016.


On 06/05/2015 21:08, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 2015-05-06 21:42 GMT+03:00 Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On the MariaDB Deprecation Policy page we list planned deprecation
> > dates for most of the platforms we build on.
> >
> > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/deprecation-policy/
> >
> > The various Debian releases we build for are listed, but there are no
> > deprecation dates.
> >
> > According to https://www.debian.org/releases/ with the release of
> > Debian 8 "Jessie" both Squeeze and Wheezy are now "obsolete".
> >
> > Should we deprecate both of them and stop providing builds? Or should
> > we just deprecate Squeeze?
> There are people maintaining so called LTS updates for both Squeeze and Wheezy.
>
> It all depends on what we want to promise to the users. Maybe the
> sensible policy would be to support the two latest Debian releases? Or
> just the latest Debian release + 6 months of transition between
> versions?
>
> Anyway I think that at least squeeze builds are ok to drop and move
> all those resources into Jessie builds and QA.
>
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