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
