Ubuntu
software-properties package

Incorrect ESM coverage information

Bug #1989959 reported by vofka
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software-properties (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
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Ubuntu ubuntu-22.04.2

Bug Description

Software Properties says that Extended Security Maintenance provides security updates for over 30000 Ubuntu packages, see lines 1269 and 1346 in data/gtkbuilder/main.ui.

According to https://ubuntu.com/16-04, Canonical provides extended security maintenance for binary packages that reside in the "main" Ubuntu repository, which contains about 7000 architecture-specific packages depending on the Ubuntu release. Moreover, ESM is only provided for a part of packages, not for all packages in the "main" repository.

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Lech Sandecki (lsandecki) wrote (last edit ):

Let's stick to the following, please: over 2,300 packages in Ubuntu Main and over 23,000 packages in Ubuntu Universe, meaning over 25,000 packages in total.

It should work for every LTS from Xenial forward.

Dan Bungert (dbungert)
Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-22.04.2
tags: added: foundations-todo
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vofka (vofka) wrote :

Why do you count packages in the "universe"? I thought that the Ubuntu security team does not support them. https://ubuntu.com/16-04 says nothing about ESM coverage of packages in the "universe", and this does not imply such coverage. Also see comments in sources.list (APT) for the "universe":
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

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Lech Sandecki (lsandecki) wrote :

@vofka this is because of the launch of Ubuntu Pro, which finally brings coverage for the Universe repo https://ubuntu.com/pro

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