[pkg-mt-om-devel] Bug#734303: Not to be released with jessie

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Source: movabletype-opensource
Version: 5.2.7+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Justification: maintainer

Support of MTOS by upstream (at least in the English speaking community)
is now very sketchy. The security update announced at

http://movabletype.org/news/2013/11/movable_type_601_529_and_5161_released_to_close_security_vul.html

in November has still not materialised except in the Japanese language
website of Six Apart:

http://www.movabletype.jp/blog/_601529.html

According to

http://www.movabletype.jp/life_cycle_policy.html

5.2.x, the last open source version of MT, will be EOL in 2015/9/30,
which is during the likely support lifetime of jessie. Therefore I don't
believe that we can support MT in Debian for the next release.

(Note: the english language equivalent at

http://movabletype.org/news/2012/12/new_movable_type_product_life_cycle_policy_announced_today_1.html

doesn't include those dates).

Dominic.