What defines a "Server" / which packages are supported?

[James Dinkel]

I've always kept a minimal amount of packages installed on my servers.  For
instance, I'm pretty certain that a default install from the "Server" disc
plus Apache and php, would all be considered "server" packages.  I don't put
X, Gnome, etc on it.  With that said, it would be nice to know for certain
the EOL for all packages.  Maybe even having a script that will run on your
own system and list any packages that are not under "server" support.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Nicolas Barcet <nick.barcet at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 18:06 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says 8.04 LTS is supported until
> > 2011 on the Desktop or 2013 on the Server.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what that officially means?  Officially what
> > defines a Server install?
> >
> > Given the average install that is pointing at the hardy repositories
> > and is dully updated, how would one find out which packages it has
> > on it that are not supported past 2011?
>
> What defines a server is:
>  - the kernel used
>  - the seed that contains each packages in main as explained in [1].
>
> As checking which package is in which seed is a bit complex, I have been
> working a script that provides the end-of-life(EOL) of each package
> installed on a given system [2].
>
> For Dapper, as the seeds where not properly organized to automate this
> fully in a satisfactory manner, please refer to the email announcing the
> desktop EOL [3].
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SeedManagement
> [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-maintenance-check
> [3]
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-July/000123.html
>
> Nick
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