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

[Gabriel Filion]

On 2020-07-08 1:00 p.m., Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
> 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.

oh I see.. I guess we'll try to do better for the next release ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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