Lubuntu 12.04 End Of Life - EOL

[Ali Linx (amjjawad)]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:

> "unsupported packages" means unsupported by Canonical.
>
> These packages are/were supported by some other person, organisation or
> company, and there might be packages where the development/support is
> discontinued. Canonical does not promise anything about the support.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>

Hello Nio,

Is there any official Document/Wiki/Link that refer to the same explanation
above?

And, to me, it appears that "status --show-all" is a tricky command that
can NOT really tell you in an easy/direct way about your system being
supported or not.

This is from Lubuntu 13.04 amd64 (3.8.0-32-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 1
22:35:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)  and it is really
confusing.

You have 1200 packages (84.8%) supported until January 2014 (9m)
You have 12 packages (0.8%) supported until July 2014 (9m)

You have 0 packages (0.0%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 203 packages (14.3%) that are unsupported

Are you trying to say that, for example in my case, the 203 packages are
NOT from Canonical and they are not responsible of this? then how would
someone tell whether his/her system is secure or not?

"Unsupported:
abiword abiword-common ace-of-penguins alsamixergui audacious
audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data blueman cabextract
chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
elementary-icon-theme extlinux ffmpegthumbnailer
flashplugin-installer galculator gdebi gdebi-core gecko-mediaplayer
giblib1 gnome-mplayer gnome-paint gnome-system-tools gnome-time-admin
gnumeric gnumeric-common gpaint gpicview gtk-recordmydesktop
gtk2-engines-pixbuf guvcview hardinfo indicator-application-gtk2
leafpad liba52-0.7.4 libabiword-2.9 libass4 libaudclient2 libaudcore1
libavcodec-extra-53 libavutil-extra-51 libbinio1ldbl libbluray1
libbs2b0 libcddb2 libcompfaceg1 libcrystalhd3 libcue1 libdca0
libdirac-encoder0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libdvbpsi7 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
libebml3 libexo-1-0 libexo-common libexo-helpers libfaad2
libffmpegthumbnailer4 libfluidsynth1 libfm-data libfm-gtk-bin
libfm-gtk-data libfm-gtk3 libfm3 libgda-5.0-4 libgda-5.0-common
libgmlib1 libgmtk1 libgmtk1-data libgoffice-0.10-10
libgoffice-0.10-10-common libguess1 libiso9660-8 libkate1
libloudmouth1-0 libmad0 libmatroska5 libmenu-cache2 libmms0
libmodplug1 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil libmono-addins0.2-cil
libmowgli2 libmp3lame0 libmpcdec6 libmpeg2-4 libmpg123-0
libmusicbrainz3-6 libnet-dbus-perl libnspr4-0d libobrender27 libobt0
libonig2 liboobs-1-5 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0
libopenjpeg2 libopus0 libots0 libresid-builder0c2a libsdl-image1.2
libsidplay2 libssh2-1 libtar0 libts-0.0-0 libtwolame0 libupnp6
libvcdinfo0 libvlc5 libvlccore5 libvo-aacenc0 libvo-amrwbenc0
libwebp4 libwv-1.2-4 libx264-123 libxaw3dxft6 libxfce4ui-1-0
libxfce4util-common libxfce4util6 libxfconf-0-2 libxml-twig-perl
libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 lightdm-gtk-greeter
lubuntu-artwork lubuntu-artwork-13-04 lubuntu-core
lubuntu-default-session lubuntu-default-settings lubuntu-desktop
lubuntu-icon-theme lubuntu-lxpanel-icons lubuntu-restricted-addons
lubuntu-restricted-extras lubuntu-software-center lxappearance
lxappearance-obconf lxinput lxkeymap lxlauncher lxmenu-data lxpanel
lxpanel-indicator-applet-plugin lxrandr lxsession lxsession-data
lxsession-edit lxshortcut lxtask lxterminal mplayer2 mtpaint mypaint
mypaint-data obconf openbox p7zip-full pcmanfm pidgin-microblog pinta
plymouth-theme-lubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-lubuntu-text
python-pysqlite2 python-support python-xklavier recordmydesktop scrot
skype skype-bin:i386 sylpheed sylpheed-doc sylpheed-i18n
sylpheed-plugins synaptic syslinux-themes-debian
syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy system-tools-backends transmission
tsconf ttf-mscorefonts-installer unetbootin unetbootin-translations
unrar vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse xfburn
xfce-keyboard-shortcuts xfce4-notifyd xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-power-manager-data xfconf xpad xpaint xscreensaver
xscreensaver-data zsync"

If you have a look at these, you will come to know most if not all are
shipped by default with Lubuntu. While 13.04 has not yet reached its EOL,
how can we really tell whether our system is secure or not?

There must be another way to confirm unless someone has a good and logical
explanation of what is going on!


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