> I feel like Debian has maybe finally cottoned onto the idea that it only really makes sense to do "transparently apply security upgrades"-style LTS support fo

> I feel like Debian has maybe finally cottoned onto the idea that it only really makes sense to do "transparently apply security upgrades"-style LTS support for packages that are actual OS infrastructure, because people are increasingly vendoring/containerizing anything that affects whether their app works. Or, for that matter, since Elasticsearch is written in Java, most Java developers just use Maven to pull in dependencies and don't even bother using the OS package manager.