<div dir="ltr">My understanding has always been that only 'main' is officially supported by Canonical as part of the LTS effort. Packages from other components (i.e., universe) do not receive LTS support.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Ouch! That doesn't sound supported at all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Another in a growing list of why I don't use or recommend Ubuntu.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In Ubuntu LTS, there's an issue with many packages not receiving security updates.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/</a><br>
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$ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported<br>
Support status summary of 'lubuntu':<br>
<br>
You have 196 packages (8.0%) supported until February 2015 (9m)<br>
You have 12 packages (0.5%) supported until January 2017 (9m)<br>
You have 1679 packages (68.8%) supported until May 2019 (5y)<br>
You have 148 packages (6.1%) supported until May 2017 (3y)<br>
<br>
You have 101 packages (4.1%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded<br>
You have 304 packages (12.5%) that are unsupported<br>
<br>
No longer downloadable:<br>
<insert huge-ass-list> .......<br>
<br>
Unsupported:<br>
<insert even-huger-huge-ass-list> .......<br>
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Saw this and freaked out a little! 196 packages have lost support already on a<br>
14.04 desktop. Most are java and perl helpers. The perl stuff doesn't bother<br>
me, since I use perl-brew for all my real work in perl (never depend on the<br>
system perl stuff). But there are some ssh2, TLS, and qemu in that list too!<br>
<br>
Supported until February 2015 (9m):<br>
chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n expect .... qemu-common<br>
libsqlite3-dev libssh2-1 libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls28<br>
libgnutlsxx27<br>
<br>
A non-supported browser is a non-starter for me. This is on my primary desktop!<br>
Must do something about that, even if it means removal of the browser.<br>
<br>
to see which installed pkgs have and do not have support on your boxes.<br>
It basically comes down to which repository the packages are in. Just something<br>
more to be aware about.<br>
<br>
Someone did the same thing for Debian and claimed that all the package security<br>
fixes were back ported to the "supported" releases.<br>
<br>
Lucy (Canonical), you got some 'splaning to do.<br>
<br>
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