EOL of Warty?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:55, John wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Daniel Robitaille">
> >
> >>So when is the official end of life of Warty going to be?  18
> >> months from its release? Which makes it somewhere around April
> >> 20ish.  Or when Dapper is officially released?
> >
> > Warty will hit EOL on April 20.
>
> I just had an enormous argument about this on Fedora. I have a FC3
> box. FC expired just before FC5's release, it's timed on when FC5
> went into testing.
>
> The result is a lot of sleepyheads are running unsupported software
> out of ignorance (I guess that would happen anyway).
>
> The alternatives are to change configurations to point to different
> repos for a short while, or to upgrade to FC4 which has a strictly
> limited life.
>
> I'm in the same position here. Wife's box runs Warty, she's
> allergic to changes so I do them infrequently. It's Internet
> connexion is via modem, updates are painful. The logical upgrade is
> to the latest release, the one promised for April.
>
> Why not expire Warty once Dapper is out, instead of before?

There have been two releases between Warty and Dapper, six months 
apart. It's not unreasonable for the release team to expect you to do 
an update every six months. So there's no need to delay the EOL for 
Warty, as you should have updated the box at least twice since then.

Even if the dates remain the same, all you are effectively losing is 
six weeks of security support between the original release date for 
Dapper and the new date.

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Alan McKinnon
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