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For context for other readers, security updates for packages in universe and multiverse used to be "best effort". Now, Canonical's security team does the work o

For context for other readers, security updates for packages in universe and multiverse used to be "best effort". Now, Canonical's security team does the work of patching all of them just like with main and restricted, except that they're gated behind an Ubuntu Pro subscription even if you're on the latest Ubuntu release.

oriettaxx 4y ago
it is not that easy: in our context (where we have to assure our customerss that the operating systems are patched for security) it practically means that we are not respecting the contract. We have a a lot of servers (all VMs), who doesn't these days?, due to splitting in a lot of micro-services, that means that with the PRO move we have a LOT of added costs: customers says, of course, why don't you use another linux? It was our (my personal, actually) mistake to move from Centos to Ubuntu some years ago: plus another big mistake was not to feel it coming (the PRO move, I mean), even by reading HN daily! I figured it out only the day I saw, in the cli, the pretty explicit message, which to me sounded like: * there are security patches available, but you don't get it until you give us 500$