Bird2 for Debian Jessie?

Skyler Mäntysaari samip537 at kapsi.fi
Thu Jul 16 14:09:57 CEST 2020


Hi,

I cannot do much about it, as VyOS 1.2 is based of Jessie and I'm using 
it but that's beside the point I think.

On 16/07/2020 14.02, Fran wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>> It seems weird to have it only in unstable/testing tough,
> Jessie was LTS and is EoL since 16 days[1], you should consider
> abandoning this sinking ship!
>
> Debian stable is Buster, you find bird2 for Buster in the network.cz repo
>
> regards,
>
> fran
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
>
> On 16.07.20 10:31, Chriztoffer Hansen wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 07:02, Skyler Mäntysaari <samip537 at kapsi.fi> wrote:
>>> It seems weird to have it only in unstable/testing tough, as coming from
>>> Ubuntu and it's there already without needing to do really anything to
>>> repos.
>> Ubuntu is progressive compared to Debian being more conservative.
>>
>> Debian is simply in line with what the developers intentions.
>>
>> I highly doubt we are going to see bird2 package included in Debian
>> stable, before the Dev team being BIRD releases their own Debian build
>> and officially confirms bird2 to be the "new stable" and bird1 to be
>> the "old stable" release.
>>


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