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Hi Keith,
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 05:10:01PM +0000, Keith Williams wrote:
> My opinion will probably not really be totally relevant to the
> question you have asked
Well it's not about what I think, it's about what prospective
customers think. If you say you consider a Debian release to be EOL
when its standard support period ends (typically 1 year after the
release of the next stable version) then I have to accept that even
if I don't agree with it!
The purpose of this was to find out what people really consider
"EOL" to mean. It doesn't appear to have grabbed many people's
interest though so I will probably just have to have a think about
it and put whatever I think is right.
At the moment all I am sure of is that setting Ubuntu's EOL to the
end of the 5 year ESM period is not consistent with what "EOL" means
for other distributions so I will probably have to use other terms
to describe it. That's just, like, my opinion, man. Because it's
difficult to compare the exact details of each distributions'
support offerings.
Cheers,
Andy
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