Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

Posted Mar 3, 2008 17:44 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated by Cato
Parent article: Security Support for Debian 3.1 to be terminated

I'm curious why Ubuntu doesn't provide security updates for as many packages as Debian, though ... anyone know the answer?

Manpower required? (No, "Canonical is a company, they have money" doesn't cut it).

Maintaining old software is boring, backporting security fixes from (increasingly remote) head versions is delicate, painstaking work, and requires people intimately acquainted with the codebases. They are in rather short supply.

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