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From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: EoL dates
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   Is there any reason why releases have EoL dates after only 12 
months?  While it's clear that some sort of EoL is important, I can't think 
of any security advisories recently which weren't accompanied by patches 
for all the security branches, even those which are no longer officially 
supported.

Colin Percival