[Pkg-puppet-devel] Backporting puppet 5 to stretch?

[Utkarsh Gupta]

Hello,

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 10:21 PM Georg Faerber <georg at debian.org> wrote:
> On 20-07-08 12:24:08, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> > would it be a good idea to backport the puppet package to
> > stretch-backports? this would make it possible for debian stretch
> > machines to stay connected to the puppetmaster after having upgraded
> > it to puppetserver 6.
>
> Initially, it was announced [1], that
>
>     Please keep in mind that backports doesn't follow LTS. Which means
>     that we will drop support for oldstable (stretch) around one year
>     after the release of buster. Thats in sync with the - official -
>     security support for oldstable.
>
> However, I'm not aware of the current state in regards to this.

Unfortunately, that window has closed[1].
I am afraid that backporting to Stretch is no more possible.


Best,
Utkarsh
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[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2020/07/msg00003.html