Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 15:12 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
[...]
> I don't think anyone would sign up as a user for such
"support". LTS
> is about a fairly specific promise that is very hard to commit to.
How so? It would be a legacy effort, run by volunteers, no
guarantees,
no commitments.
So would that satisfy /you/ in very particular? You would come screaming
bloody murder when one fine summer day, out of the blue, the "LTS" you were
planning on using for a few months more until you are ready to migrate to
the Latest And Greatest announces it will stop out of boredom of its last
maintainers... or just /the/ package you depend on is left stranded for
lack of interest... or terrible security problems in some unmaintained
packages show up...
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