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oarsinsync on May 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me of...

Anyone have any idea what Debian's LTS security posture looks like? Is it also restricted to 'main' and does it also ignore 'contrib' and 'non-free'?

danieldk on May 2, 2020 [–]

Similar policy:

https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contrib

However most packages in Debian are in main. AFAIK contrib is for FLOSS packages that somehow depend on packages that are not FLOSS.

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