Minor tweaks on EOL process

First, clarify that this is for planned deprecations, not
security-related issues.

Second, we actually _don't_ want to remove the versions from the
approved list before the EOL date, or people will start getting
warnings too early.
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@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ End of Life on an old release series
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Here are the steps that the maintainer should take when an old Tor release
series reaches End of Life:
series reaches End of Life. Note that they are _only_ for entire series that
have reached their planned EOL: they do not apply to security-related
deprecations of individual versions.
=== 0. Preliminaries
@ -15,11 +17,6 @@ series reaches End of Life:
Send the announcement to tor-announce, tor-talk, tor-relays, and the
packagers.
2. A few days before End of Life:
Get at least two of weasel/arma/Sebastian to
remove the old version number from their approved versions list.
Give them a few days to do this if you can.
=== 1. On the day
1. Open tickets to remove the release from:
@ -44,9 +41,8 @@ series reaches End of Life:
- other tickets should be closed (if we won't fix them) or moved to a
supported release (if we will fix them)
5. Double-check: did the version get un-recommended in the consensus yet?
If not, don't announce until they have the up-to-date versions, or people
will get confused.
6. Mail the end of life announcement to tor-announce, the packagers list,
5. Mail the end of life announcement to tor-announce, the packagers list,
and tor-relays. The current list of packagers is in ReleasingTor.md.
6. Get at least two of weasel/arma/Sebastian to remove the old version number
from their approved versions list.