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 backport things that tend to lead to security maintenance issues.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:29:52PM +1100, progr...@alphalink.com.au wrote: > In reference to the following thread > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=19795d70673e4b282daf288ccb944f30&t=1012712&highlight=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 the Gimp, etc, for the lifetime of your *ubuntu version? > > > -- > ubuntu-backports mailing list > ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
