Cinnamon (or Nemo) already EOL??

[php4fan]

I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 20.04 with apt-get.

I went to report a bug about Nemo upstream at https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/2473

and they told me that the version I have (4.4) is EOL.

How can the version distributed to Ubuntu 20.04 (the latest stable release of Ubuntu) via the Ubuntu repos ALREADY be end-of-life?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: cinnamon 4.4.8-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Thu Aug 6 14:01:25 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2490 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: cinnamon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-12 (24 days ago)

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Upstream developers usually want bug reports for the development release, not stable (maintained) releases of their software. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will of course be using a stable release (Ubuntu's current development release is groovy, not focal/20.04).

If you look at the package you filed, you'll note (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cinnamon) groovy uses 4.6.6-1 compared to 4.4.8-4 in focal.

It's often best to file your bug on the version you are using, if it's confirmed, to file the bug upstream it's rather common for upstream to need proof it's been tested on their current development version (which may be easiest by confirming the bug on a VM running a different distribution or upstream PPA/package-repository).

The EOL will be in the eyes of the developers (meaning a later version is available), and does not reflect that downstream users/packagers of the product can backport bug-fixes to that version. You can use `ubuntu-security-status` (ubuntu-support-status for older releases) to view package status for your current system.

This is comment only.

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/2473 was closed because is a duplicate of https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues/2471

cinnamon upstream support seems only for latest stable version and good only for short time, a few months later as the next release approaches there are at most rare backports of important bugfixes and when new version becomes stable nothing anymore

possibile new build for stable ubuntu versions packages I suppose will be only for security or very important bugfix

I'm still using ubuntu 18.04 (with cinnamon) on my pc and notebook, I not tested ubuntu 20.04 with cinnamon yet (I'll upgrade to it in future when I'll have time) but I tested packages in debian Sid (where ubuntu take them) and I not saw important bugs. If important bugfix is needed I can try (free time permitting) to prepare an SRU (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates)