In reference to the following thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=19795d70673e4b282daf288ccb944f30t=1012712highlight=life+after+backports
What happens to the security status of all the Backported software?
Does the Backporting team supply security fixes for backported versions
of
Strictly speaking, backports officially does not guarantee any period or type of
support, which is why they are worded as unofficial updates in software
sources manager. in reality, the backporters do address security issues in the
backports repo on a best-effort basis and take care not to
