Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 17.07.2019, 07:12 +0000 schrieb J.Witvliet at mindef.nl:
> 
> One of the things I noticed, is that 19.04 has  an up-2-date
> version  of all sorts of security related packages.
> Eventhough those packages were upstream available before the release-
> date of 18.04, they choose not to include them.

for LTS releases like 18.04 packages typically stay at their versions
that were recent before the big QA run on a release begun (about the
middle of the cycle). Any security related fixes or patches for the
supported set of software are typically backported as a cherry pick by
the security team without changing the major version of a package. So
while checking a version of a package, you should always also check its
patchlevel [1]. 

if you actually require newer versions of packages you can ask for a
stable-release-update [2]. 

ciao
	oli

[1] https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
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