Security/support status of packages

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 15:10, Michael Vogt wrote:

> As a solution that can be implemented for hardy we discussed a new
> view in synaptic that would allow sorting package by their support
> status. This would allow the user to more easily find packages
> installed but not in main. I was considering just putting it under the
> "Status" view in synaptic and adding a new emblem to add/remove
> (gnome-app-install) that tells about the support timeframe. What do
> you think?

But support status is more complex than that.  One example is that desktop 
packages in Main fall out of support two years before server packages in Main 
do. 

Scott K