LTS Qualification for Xubuntu 24.04

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Sean,

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 09:01:01AM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> Hello Technical Board,

> I'd like to qualify Xubuntu 24.04 as an LTS release, supported for 3 years.
> Key contacts include myself (bluesabre), Unit193, and Pasi Lallinaho
> (knome). We have several other active members of the team, but the three of
> us generally drive the project, with myself and Unit193 having full upload
> permissions to support the LTS release.

> Our support plan is generally limited to security and bug fixes for the
> Xfce package set, but our team also maintains packaging for several
> applications and have sponsored patches for e.g. blueman in the past.

> Please let us know if there's any additional information needed to proceed.
> Thanks!

Thank you, this looks reasonably complete, and I believe is sufficient that
I would sign off on Xubuntu being included with LTS status for 3 years in
24.04.

During the Riga sprint, I had a discussion with members of the Security Team
about the fact that historically, there were some CVE tracking reports for
vulnerabilities affecting flavor-specific packages.  Unfortunately, those
reports have bit rotted, so we don't currently have them.  How do you expect
to become aware of security issues affecting your packages?  Do you have
examples of Xubuntu-affecting security issues in the past, to show how they
have been handled?

(This is not a blocker for LTS approval of Xubuntu.)

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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