Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
> o/~ talking to myself in public o/~
>
> On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:40:54 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber
>  declaimed the following:
>>
>>       I suspect it isn't time -- but versions... Wheezy is FOUR generations
>>old in relation to Buster. That makes it the "WinXP" in relation to
>>"Win10".
>
>        Well, might also be time -- from the linked announcement Buster
> "...will be supported for the next 5 years...", so Wheezy could easily have
> fallen out of the support range... Confirmed on
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
>
> Wheezy support expired May of LAST year. Jessie is in "long term support"
> until June of next year, Stretch will be go into LTS next year until summer
> of 2022. LTS appears to be a volunteer team, and not formal Debian security
> patches.

It's a separate project certainly, to what extent it is more
"volunteer" than the rest of the package administration I'm
not sure. I don't know if LTS Debian packages ever make it as far
as the Raspbian respository either.

As far as the security patches themselves go, they're simply builds
of patches released by the developers of each program, so they're
just as formal as the packages for the stable distro. The issue is
that some programs may not receive the patches as quickly or as
regularly as they do for mainstream supported distro versions.

But poster is not trying to deal with security updates, just install
a package that was available originally, and presumably he's happy
with a slightly outdated version. The secuirty implications of that
are another matter, and depend of what he's doing with the Pi.

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