On Thursday 20 October 2005 21:32, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > > http://www.us.debian.org/releases/potato/ the following :
> > > "Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has been obsoleted by Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
> > > ("woody"). Security updates are discontinued as of June 30th,
> > > 2003."
> > >
> > > The same is not written for the 3.0 release that is declared
> > > osbolete like the 2.2.
>
> [...]
>
> > Yes. This should probably be mentioned on that page,
>
> [...]
>
> /me points to <http://bugs.debian.org/323770> which even includes a
> patch and mentions the situation wrt security updates. (Yeah, I forgot
> to tag it when I filed the bug, but then the mail is short enough that
> somebody on d-www might have noticed the patch...)
There was a discussion about this earlier. Woody has not yet been
obsoleted as it is still in the main archives and there is still Security
support for it.
Potato _was_ obsoleted because both of these were missing long before
Sarge was released.
So it might be good to mention that a newer release is available and that
use of Sarge instead of Woody is _advised_ (and especially a more recent
kernel than the ones available in Woody), but IMO it would be wrong at
this point to say that Woody has been obsoleted.
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