> There should be an effort to offer 50 years of security updates for Debian 12. That would create more value for real businesses than all the work that will go into Debian 13, 14, 15 etc.
Well business is free to sponsor such effort, I'm sure Debian project will be happy with extra money. Just that cost will be steadily growing year by year because backporting new fixes to ancient code gets more and more expensive in general.
Also majority of security problems will not be "distro machine is running" but "app that is running on that distro". A container with app that can just run on modern distro is far more preferable method to support something for long time.
Well business is free to sponsor such effort, I'm sure Debian project will be happy with extra money. Just that cost will be steadily growing year by year because backporting new fixes to ancient code gets more and more expensive in general.
Also majority of security problems will not be "distro machine is running" but "app that is running on that distro". A container with app that can just run on modern distro is far more preferable method to support something for long time.