Support status of nginx in Ubuntu 14.04LTS expired in Feburary 2015?

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 2016-04-25 03:05 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 02:57:22PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2016-04-25 02:45 PM, Andreas Wundsam wrote:
>>> Hello Ubuntu Maintainers,
>>>
>>> I was surprised to see that ubuntu-support-status shows the support of package
>>> nginx expired in February 2015?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> $ ubuntu-support-status --show-all
>>> [....]
>>> Supported until February 2015 (9m):
>>> [...] *nginx nginx-common *
>>> ---
>>>
>>> apt show shows the package as being in main, but receiving only 9 months of support:
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Supported: 9m
>>> APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
>>> ----
>>>
>>> So far, it has been my world view that packages that reside in the main
>>> repository would receive the full 5 years of LTS support.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>
>> Short answer: don't use ubuntu-support-status, it doesn't work.
>>
>> Long answer: ubuntu-support-status is a deprecated tool that used to be used
>> when we had a 3y/5y split on desktop and server packages. It returns the
>> contents of the "Supported:" tag which hasn't been updated since Ubuntu 10.04
>> LTS. I've filed a bug to get it removed:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1574670
>>
>> Marc.
> 
> The Supported: field logic actually got updated on release week for
> 16.04, so it's absolutely meant to be meaningful.
> 
> The code for that logic can be found at:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-archive/ubuntu-archive-publishing/trunk/view/head:/scripts/maintenance-check.py
> 
> If the logic doesn't match reality, then someone should send a branch to
> fix the logic.
> 
> Note that it's long been the case that the fact that a package is in
> main or in universe doesn't necessarily indicate support length. We have
> plenty of packages in universe with support for 3 years or 5 years
> during LTS cycles and there are a number of packages that are in main
> but aren't part of a product and so aren't supported past the 9 months
> mark.

Now I'm confused what "supported" means.

For security updates provided by the security team, this is what we rely on:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Official_Support

What does the Supported: field mean?

Marc.