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That's a nice command to know although it gave me the following: Support status summary of 'acomputer': You have 12 packages (0.8%) supported until Januar
by manaskarekar 9y ago
That's a nice command to know although it gave me the following:
Support status summary of 'acomputer':
You have 12 packages (0.8%) supported until January 2017 (9m)
I guess the dates are hardcoded when the distribution was launched. (I'm on 16.04).
Still a good over all indicator I suppose.
- soneil 9y agoI don't believe it's hardcoded, it's provided in the package list from the repo. eg, "apt-cache show apache2 | grep ^Supported".
- rlpb 9y agoEssentially, that is hardcoded. The package list (ie. apt cache) does not change after release. It cannot, because of mirror expectations and of course because it ends up on the images. Updates go through a separate updates pocket. Essentially the "Supported" field cannot be updated for all packages without issuing an update for all packages, which would require all users to download all packages again to get the new versions of each of them.