On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:31:24 +0000
Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What will become Debian stretch (9.x) is going to be frozen on
> 5 February:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch
>
> and presumably released relatively soon after that, so we've added
> stretch to our self-installer.
'As always, Debian 9 "Stretch" will be released "when it's ready".'
This could be several months as there are still many 'release critical'
bugs to be sorted.
> Another thing to consider is that the package version shipped in
> Stretch will be around for a loooong time. Debian releases see about
> 3 years of full support, and an extra 2 years with LTS. Debian jessie
> will therefore be supported normally until 2018 and with LTS until
> 2020. To quote the release team: As always, Debian 9 "Stretch" will
> be released "when it's ready". Some stats about a typical Debian
> release, it:
>
> endures a freeze cycle of 7 +/- 1 months before getting released.
> is released about 2 years after the previous one (the often cited
> example of Debian Sarge being quite an exceptional event in Debian
> history). leaves users about 1 year to upgrade to the next one once
> this latter itself gets released. has (from release to the end of
> security updates) a total lifetime of about 3 years.
>
> So starting with a full freeze in february 2017, we could see a
> release in september 2017, which would mean support until september
> 2020 and LTS until 2022, a whooping 6 years from now.
I upated from jessie to stretch on my laptop and it is rather unstable
at present, dumping me out to the login screen pretty frequently when I
am web browsing. It may well be more stable in 'server' mode tho'
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
