On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 21:06 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 10:49 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > To be clear, those versions will never update Evolution to a newer
> > release.  That's what "LTS" implies

It's more complex, actually even non-LTS releases will never upgrade, if
release model distros wouldn't freeze, they would be rolling release
model distros.

> Actually, Ubuntu and related distributions apply both security _and_
> bug fix updates to packages in a given distribution and push them out
> to users. They generally _don't_ update the upstream-assigned major,
> minor and patch version numbers but tack on yet another spec denoting
> the distribution's version of the package, e.g.

That's an oversimplification, actually you could expect this for
packages provided by main, but evolution is part of universe.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/evolution
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories#Universe

I guess going more into details is inappropriate for this mailing list.

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