Debian squeeze (6.0) LTS development
The Debian project is pleased to announce that although regular security support for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (code name squeeze) will be terminated on 31 May, long term support for the distribution is going to be extended until February 2016, i.e. five years after the initial release.
Squeeze-LTS will not be handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success (with some overlap in people involved). Companies using Debian who are interested in aiding this effort should contact team@security.debian.org.
Importantly, the success of Squeeze-LTS will be used to judge the viability of LTS support for Debian 7 (wheezy) and Debian 8 (jessie).
Announcement
Long term support for Debian squeeze announced (24 April 2014)
DSA-2907 - Announcement of long term support for Debian oldstable (16 Apr 2014)
debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org Subject: Bits from the Security Team (5 Mar 2014)
live notes from the Security Team meeting in Essen 2014 (9 Feb 2014)
Mailing lists
squeeze-lts@lists.enyo.de
Description: this mailing list coordinate the preparation of Squeeze-LTS. If you want to contribute, send a mail with a short presentation and we'll see how you can help
debian-lts-changes: STILL NOT AVAILABLE
Description: All new package uploads to the LTS ("Long-Term Support") suite are announced here. You should subscribe to this list if you want immediate notification of every package upload to LTS. If you only wish to receive announcements of new package releases on LTS, you may wish to subscribe to the debian-lts-announce mailinglist instead.
Subscription policy: open
debian-lts-announce: STILL NOT AVAILABLE
Description: Important information about new uploads and the status of the LTS distribution are posted here, including security advisories for packages updated in LTS. If you are using the LTS updates on any systems, it is highly recommended that you subscribe to this list, to ensure you are kept fully up-to-date.
Subscription policy: open
Using squeeze-lts
Add squeeze-lts to your sources.list
Important: Squeeze-LTS will only support i386 and amd64. Users of other architectures are encouraged to upgrade to Debian 7 ("wheezy").
for binary packeges add this line: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main
for source package add this line: deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian squeeze-lts main
If you want more info on which mirrors to use, read debian mirrors
Update and upgrade
Run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to update and upgrade your system
== Contribute ==
Report Bugs
Please report bugs that you found in the packages to the squeeze-lts mailinglist
Uploads
To upload a package simply add "squeeze-lts" to the target distribution. If you use dput-ng, you need to apply the patch from 745806. After that "dput CHANGES file" is sufficient.
Versioning of updates
The versioning follows the conventions already used in security.debian.org. Historically codenames have been used as version numbers, but this was changed some time ago as version numbers are more deterministic.
If a package already e.g. had a +squeeze1 update, use +squeeze2 for the next update.
If a package hasn't seen an update, use +deb6u1 for the next update.
Questions and Answers
QUESTION: ....?
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