"Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> writes: > On 2022-03-30 08:48:36 +0200, Marco Sulla wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 00:10, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote: >> > They are are about a year apart, so they will usually contain different >> > versions of most packages right from the start. So the Ubuntu and Debian >> > security teams probably can't benefit much from each other. >> >> Are you sure? Since LTS of Debian and Ubuntu lasts 5 years, I suppose >> the versions of the packages should overlap at some point in the past. > > Standard policy (there are exceptions) on most distros is to stay with > the same version of any package for the entire lifetime. So for example, > Ubuntu 20.04 was released with Apache 2.4.41 and Python 3.8.10 and > Debian 11 was released with Apache 2.4.53 and Python 3.9.2 and they are > still on these versions. Any security fixes and other critical bug fixes > were back-ported to these versions.
Are you sure? In the past this was not the case, but it is possible that this has changed. (I do not really follow other distributions. I am quite happy with Debian.) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list