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

Mailing lists/Chat channel

squeeze-lts@lists.enyo.de DEPRECATED

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

Deprecated by debian-lts

debian-lts

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/

Description: Discussion and coordination of long-term support work for Debian Everyone involved or interested in providing Long-Term Support for Debian should feel free to join this list. Discussion of policy, on-going support issues, and anything else relating to LTS are all on-topic here.

Subscription policy: open

debian-lts-changes

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-changes/

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/

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

IRC Channel #debian-lts

IRC Channel: debian-lts (w/o SSL: debian-lts) (see IRC)

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").

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

Check for unsupported packages

As announced, not all packages of the Debian archive is supported by Squeeze-LTS. To check whether you have unsupported packages installed on your machine, please install the debian-security-support package (currently only in unstable) and run the check-support-status utility.

Contribute

You can help in many ways

Report Bugs

Please report bugs that you found in the packages to the squeeze-lts mailinglist

Upload Packages

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.


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