gnutls plans for focal LTS?

[John Cummings]

October 1st, 2021 at 3:48 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov  wrote:
> Note that thanks to the ca-certificates package update in focal
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/1944481
> / https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5089-1 gnutls operates
> correctly with letsencrypt servers with either short or long chains in
> all releases of Ubuntu, including Focal's version of the package.

Thank you, that worked for me, and I should have checked that first.

> You are correct that focal's version of gnutls is affected and this
> may trip up again, whenever the next CA expires. I've added a target
> focal series on the gnutls bug report, but not it is not time critical
> to fix it at the moment.

Understood. I only ask this to help me understand the details of
package maintenance better: is there a significant difference between
bionic and focal here?  It looks like bionic got the ca-certificates
update as well, so are there other reasons why only bionic would
get the fix backported? I had assumed there was something I didn't
understand, but maybe it was just an oversight.

In any case, thank you and all of your colleagues very much!