Incorrect ESM coverage information

[vofka]

Software Properties says that Extended Security Maintenance provides security updates for over 30000 Ubuntu packages, see lines 1269 and 1346 in data/gtkbuilder/main.ui.

According to https://ubuntu.com/16-04, Canonical provides extended security maintenance for binary packages that reside in the "main" Ubuntu repository, which contains about 7000 architecture-specific packages depending on the Ubuntu release. Moreover, ESM is only provided for a part of packages, not for all packages in the "main" repository.

[Lech Sandecki (lsandecki)]

Let's stick to the following, please: over 2,300 packages in Ubuntu Main and over 23,000 packages in Ubuntu Universe, meaning over 25,000 packages in total.

It should work for every LTS from Xenial forward.

[vofka (vofka)]

Why do you count packages in the "universe"? I thought that the Ubuntu security team does not support them. https://ubuntu.com/16-04 says nothing about ESM coverage of packages in the "universe", and this does not imply such coverage. Also see comments in sources.list (APT) for the "universe":
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

[Lech Sandecki (lsandecki)]

@vofka this is because of the launch of Ubuntu Pro, which finally brings coverage for the Universe repo https://ubuntu.com/pro

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at both Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 the message indicated in comment #1 appears in software-properties-gtk so I am setting this to Fix Released.