a plan for updates after end of life

[Les Mikesell]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:35:14PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>> What real use is that? The point of relying on some after-EOL-mainenance is
>> to be able to extend the life for some definite time.
> 
> It is better than nothing, and it would be wrong to advertise something
> wrong. As a side note, it is the same for Fedora, packages may be 
> orphaned within the timespan of the release.

If a package is orphaned within the release timespan but a security 
exploit is subsequently published that affects the shipped version, 
would the users be left on their own to fix it?

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