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Re: LTS versions - confusion

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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> 6) After that year, the release goes into "long-term support" mode, and
>    received security bug fix support from a different team.  The LTS
>    team may choose to support only server packages, not desktop packages.
> 
A slight correction: the LTS team supports all the packages that were
part of the stable release, with a few specific exceptions.  For
example, if the Security Team declared a particular package unsupported
during the time the release was stable, the package remains unsupported
[*].  Occasionally, similar action is taken regarding a package that
can no longer be supported by the team.  For instance, this happend with
enigmail [0].

That said, any Debian system, whether running old-old-old-stable or
unstable, can make use of the debian-security-support package for
current information regarding the support status of any packages
installed on the system (or any particular package, whether or not
installed on the system).

Regards,

-Roberto


[*] This happened some time ago with MySQL because of Oracle's policy
around CPUs and their refusal to assist distro teams with backporting
security-specific fixes.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00002.html

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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LTS versions - confusion Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> - 2021-09-13 16:50 +0200
  Re: LTS versions - confusion Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-13 17:00 +0200
    Re: LTS versions - confusion Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-09-14 08:40 +0200
  Re: LTS versions - confusion IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 17:00 +0200
  Re: LTS versions - confusion Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-13 17:10 +0200
    Re: LTS versions - confusion Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> - 2021-09-14 22:40 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-14 22:50 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-09-14 23:10 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-15 00:20 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 09:00 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-15 15:20 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-15 04:50 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-15 12:50 +0200
          Re: LTS versions - confusion The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-09-15 13:10 +0200
          Re: LTS versions - confusion Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> - 2021-09-15 17:00 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-09-15 17:00 +0200
          Re: LTS versions - confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 06:00 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-15 08:10 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-15 09:10 +0200
        Re: LTS versions - confusion "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-15 10:40 +0200
  Re: LTS versions - confusion Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-14 08:50 +0200
    Re: LTS versions - confusion "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-14 16:40 +0200
      Re: LTS versions - confusion l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2021-09-14 19:00 +0200

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