Re: How to interpret packages-to-support
Hi Roberto, Sylvain, all
I have the same view as you, almost. The LTS packages-to-support list
has some meaning since it indicates how important packages is to
update so it gives some priority information.
The thing here is that in this case the package I asked for is
non-free, and that means that it is not generally supported. But since
we have a very similar package in the packages-to-support list I was
wondering whether we should support this one too.
Specifically for nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx I wonder if we
should support it even if it is in the non-free section because we say
we should support nvidia-graphics-drivers.
I guess I will not get an answer today so I'll leave this to the next
front-desk person (Sylvain) tomorrow.
Cheers
// Ola
On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 23:51, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:09:47PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hi LTS team
> >
> > I looked at nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx who have two CVEs. I
> > can see that this package is not in "packages-to-support" for LTS. But
> > I can see that nvidia-graphics-drivers is.
> > I'm not sure how to interpret this. Do the entry in
> > packages-to-support mean that all nvidia-graphics-drivers packages
> > should be supported or just the specific one listed.
> >
> > Anyone know this?
> >
> Hi Ola,
>
> I encountered this some time back when I was doing FD work. My
> recollection of Raphael's guidance is that packages-to-support really
> only applies for ELTS (where sponsors decide which specific packages
> they will pay to support). For LTS, we support all packages except
> those which the Security Team had previously decided to drop and those
> which the LTS Team has decided to drop. The LTS triage script retrieves
> the current list from debian-security-support package, so it should
> point out which packages are EOL or have limited security support. All
> other packages are supported as usual.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto C. Sánchez
>
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