[Bug 2086753] Re: apt shows updates for oracular as standard LTS security updates even though oracular is not an LTS release

[Julian Andres Klode]

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Title:
  apt shows updates for oracular as standard LTS security updates even
  though oracular is not an LTS release

Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On my computer, I run an up-to-date installation of Kubuntu 24.10.
  When I ran 'sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade' today, I saw the
  following in the output

  ```
  ❯ sudo apt upgrade -y
  Upgrading:                      
    libmpg123-0t64  libopenjp2-7

  Not upgrading yet due to phasing:
    grub-common  grub-pc  grub-pc-bin  grub2-common  lintian

  Summary:
    Upgrading: 2, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 5
  2 standard LTS security updates
    Download size: 355 kB
    Space needed: 4,096 B / 426 GB available

  Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-updates/main amd64 libmpg123-0t64 amd64 1.32.7-1ubuntu0.1 [171 kB]
  Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oracular-updates/main amd64 libopenjp2-7 amd64 2.5.0-2ubuntu1.1 [184 kB]
  Fetched 355 kB in 2s (216 kB/s)       
  (Reading database ... 286713 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../libmpg123-0t64_1.32.7-1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking libmpg123-0t64:amd64 (1.32.7-1ubuntu0.1) over (1.32.7-1) ...
  Preparing to unpack .../libopenjp2-7_2.5.0-2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking libopenjp2-7:amd64 (2.5.0-2ubuntu1.1) over (2.5.0-2ubuntu1) ...
  Setting up libmpg123-0t64:amd64 (1.32.7-1ubuntu0.1) ...
  Setting up libopenjp2-7:amd64 (2.5.0-2ubuntu1.1) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.40-1ubuntu3) ...
  Config is in use.

  ```

  There is an erroneous message in the above output which says that
  there are 2 standard LTS security updates even though oracular is not
  an LTS release.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.10
  Package: apt 2.9.8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.11.0-9.9-generic 6.11.0
  Uname: Linux 6.11.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
  ApportVersion: 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Wed Nov  6 10:57:38 2024
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oracular on 2024-10-03 (34 days ago)

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