6 Jul
2019
6 Jul
'19
6:39 a.m.
I’m already running a couple of fresh installs of Buster outside of Bitfolk, but I’d like
to keep my VPS running Stretch for the time being. Do I need to make any changes to
sources.list to carry on receiving security updates? I’ve currently got this:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main
Cheers,
Mike
6 Jul
6 Jul
6:36 p.m.
Hi Mike,
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 07:39:39AM +0100, Mike Zanker wrote:
I’m already running a couple of fresh installs of
Buster outside
of Bitfolk, but I’d like to keep my VPS running Stretch for the
time being. Do I need to make any changes to sources.list to carry
on receiving security updates?
No. Debian LTS updates continue to go into stretch-updates.
Obviously as each package maintainer is not expected to maintain
their package for oldstable and older and the LTS team has limited
resources, I cannot say that it is safe or advisable to rely on LTS
forever, but LTS can continue to be used until the release is
archived.
After stretch is archived the packages would only be found on
archive.debian.org (which you can also get through BitFolk's
apt-cacher).
Cheers,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
9:21 p.m.
On 6 Jul 2019, at 19:36, Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
No. Debian LTS updates continue to go into
stretch-updates.
Obviously as each package maintainer is not expected to maintain
their package for oldstable and older and the LTS team has limited
resources, I cannot say that it is safe or advisable to rely on LTS
forever, but LTS can continue to be used until the release is
archived.
Thanks, although with the excitement of the release today I’ve been leaning more and more
towards upgrading my VPS sooner rather than later. It’ll probably be done in the next few
days :)
Cheers,
Mike
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