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Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:
>Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>>>
>>>       I suspect it isn't time -- but versions... Wheezy is FOUR generations
>>>old in relation to Buster. That makes it the "WinXP" in relation to
>>>"Win10".
>>
>>        Well, might also be time -- from the linked announcement Buster
>> "...will be supported for the next 5 years...", so Wheezy could easily have
>> fallen out of the support range... Confirmed on
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>>
>> Wheezy support expired May of LAST year. Jessie is in "long term support"
>> until June of next year, Stretch will be go into LTS next year until summer
>> of 2022. LTS appears to be a volunteer team, and not formal Debian security
>> patches.

Yuck, basically...  I'm not used to systems 'expiring' (not being
a Windows user...). I'm still making heavy use of my 20+ years old
BeOS machine; slow, but perectly adequate for email, usenet (:-/),
and much of browsing.  And I consider 'support' to be a bit different
from keeping an archive around.  My Pi, similarly, is perfectly good
for what it's currently used for -- mostly a 'reminder server' for my
other machines and playing audio streams.

I expect I'll get a Pi4 pretty soon, and of course will put Buster
on that, but it won't obsolete the other board.

>
>But poster is not trying to deal with security updates, just install
>a package that was available originally, and presumably he's happy
>with a slightly outdated version. The secuirty implications of that
>are another matter, and depend of what he's doing with the Pi.

Exactly. It's behind a firewall, with the only port exposed being
a private one for the reminder service (so I can access it from
the coffee shop!).  I tried opening port 80 for a while, but got
fed up with all the malevolent probes.

 -- Pete --

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