Hi,
I recently moved my VM off of Trusty, and when completing the process I
noticed that the new VM's image (Debian Stretch 9.5) was labelled
"deprecated", although the VM is about 7 weeks old. Looking through the
list of Debian images, it seems that they get deprecated every couple of
months or so.
I'm unsure what that means for me as a maintainer, so I thought I'd ask
here. Looking to strike a balance between not having me spending time on
upgrading (rather than maintaining SuggestBot), and keeping the sysadmins
happy but not running old software, what's some good rules of thumb here?
Should I schedule time to move to a new VM within a given time frame (say 3
months, or 6 months)? Or maybe it's better to stick with what I have now
and wait until there's a definite reason for upgrading (e.g. similar to
what I did with Trusty)?
Regards,
Morten