[ale] LTS doesn't always mean LTS

[James Sumners]

I wasn't. Except to the distro.

On Monday, April 25, 2016, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:

> No need to be insulting, guy.
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> On 04/25/2016 08:21 AM, James Sumners wrote:
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>> Why Ubuntu is used by people with a clue is beyond me. Well, except to
>> throw it at a family member who doesn't have one. But this even makes
>> that seem like a silly notion. There are better distributions out
>> there. Some even forked from Ubuntu.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:02 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In Ubuntu LTS, there's an issue with many packages not receiving
>>> security updates.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ubuntu-lts-many-vulnerabilities-despite-long-term-support.385386/
>>> ====
>>> $ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported
>>> Support status summary of 'lubuntu':
>>>
>>> You have 196 packages (8.0%) supported until February 2015 (9m)
>>> You have 12 packages (0.5%) supported until January 2017 (9m)
>>> You have 1679 packages (68.8%) supported until May 2019 (5y)
>>> You have 148 packages (6.1%) supported until May 2017 (3y)
>>>
>>> You have 101 packages (4.1%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
>>> You have 304 packages (12.5%) that are unsupported
>>>
>>> No longer downloadable:
>>>    <insert huge-ass-list> .......
>>>
>>> Unsupported:
>>>   <insert even-huger-huge-ass-list> .......
>>> ====
>>> Saw this and freaked out a little! 196 packages have lost support
>>> already on a
>>> 14.04 desktop.  Most are java and perl helpers. The perl stuff doesn't
>>> bother
>>> me, since I use perl-brew for all my real work in perl (never depend on
>>> the
>>> system perl stuff). But there are some ssh2, TLS, and qemu in that list
>>> too!
>>>
>>>      Supported until February 2015 (9m):
>>>      chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n expect .... qemu-common
>>> libsqlite3-dev libssh2-1 libssh2-1-dev libssl-dev libgnutls-dev
>>> libgnutls28
>>> libgnutlsxx27
>>>
>>> A non-supported browser is a non-starter for me. This is on my primary
>>> desktop!
>>> Must do something about that, even if it means removal of the browser.
>>>
>>> to see which installed pkgs have and do not have support on your boxes.
>>> It basically comes down to which repository the packages are in.  Just
>>> something
>>> more to be aware about.
>>>
>>> Someone did the same thing for Debian and claimed that all the package
>>> security
>>> fixes were back ported to the "supported" releases.
>>>
>>> Lucy (Canonical), you got some 'splaning to do.
>>>
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