How to check what version of a package is available in the current ubuntu?

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 12.02.2010, 11:44 -0600 schrieb Peng Yu:
>> > as you can see on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash version 3.2
>> > is in jaunty while 4.0 is in karmic ...
>>
>> I have the following output.
>>
>> $ lsb_release -a
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID:       Ubuntu
>> Description:  Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS
>> Release:      8.04
>> Codename:     hardy
>>
>> If my machine is jaunty, there is no way to update bash to the latest
>> version by apt-get?
>>
> well, as you can see your machine is hardy (8.04) so you have the latest
> bash thats available for your release, you would have to upgrade to a
> newer release to get a newer bash (see
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading for such a step, note that you
> can only upgrade release by release (i.e. 8.04->8.10->9.04->9.10 ...)
> unless you upgrade from one LTS release to another (there is no newer
> LTS than hardy currently, the next LTS will be released end of april)).

What is LTS?