Question about Ubuntu support

[Tony Arnold]

Hi Tommy,
On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 17:25 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >ubuntu-security-status --thirdparty is interesting 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I did the commands on a fresh installation of Kubuntu in a virtual
> > 
> > machine, so that one didn't give me any results. I'd have to
> > install
> > 
> > some third-party software to see what it does. What kind of result
> > 
> > does it give?
> 
> my thirdparty is Google Chrome (which I keep around to test things
> when Chromium doesn't work for whatever reason):
> 
> user at hostname:~$ ubuntu-security-status
> 2794 packages installed, of which:
> 1939 receive package updates with LTS until 4/2025
>  849 could receive security updates with ESM Apps until 4/2030
>    1 package is from a third party
>    5 packages are no longer available for download
> 
> Packages from third parties are not provided by the official Ubuntu
> archive, for example packages from Personal Package Archives in
> Launchpad.
> For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status
> --thirdparty'.
> 
> Packages that are not available for download may be left over from a
> previous release of Ubuntu, may have been installed directly from a
> .deb file, or are from a source which has been disabled.
> For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status
> --unavailable'.

My system shows 449 packages that are no longer available for download!
Is it safe to remove/purge these? I'm assuming it is but ...
Regards,Tony. 
-- 
Tony Arnold MBCS, CITP | Senior IT Security Analyst | Directorate of IT Services | G64, Kilburn Building | The University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | T: +44 161 275 6093 | M: +44 773 330 0039
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20200531/185970c9/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3588 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20200531/185970c9/attachment.bin>