Debian Is Dropping Support for VLC Media Player, Mediawiki for Wheezy LTS | Linux Today

Debian Is Dropping Support for VLC Media Player, Mediawiki for Wheezy LTS

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Marius Nestor
May 26, 2016

There are numerous other applications that aren’t supported anymore for Debian 7 users, so if you rely on those packages the Debian LTS team recommends that you upgrade to the latest stable release of the operating system, Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” as soon as possible.

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Marius Nestor

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