Hi Mike, maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how things work here, but I can't really follow your reasoning.
Support means that individual packages get updates and fixes when security issues have been discovered. The various kinds of Ubuntu flavors are just different in installer options and default installation/configuration. The repositories (and therefore packages), on the other hand, are identical. If I install from the Ubuntu server CD, but then install the ubuntu-desktop package, I basically have a normal Ubuntu desktop, which is most likely not supported for 5 years. The problem is that if somebody wants to rely on 5 years of support, he has to make sure that _all_ packages of this installation are supported for that period of time. To my understanding, there is no easy (no at all?) way to check this. The way I see it is that you can only rely on 5 years of support if you didn't install any packages in addition to the default server install. Even if it's just a svn server, or another text editor. -- Wish: Small command line application to check LTS installation support time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249488 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
