Canonical's new take on Ubuntu LTS

[re9]

Canonical seems to keep "security" updates hostage for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS user unless one subsribes to some additional service.

  ...
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
    mc libzmq5 mc-data libsdl2-2.0-0 libmysofa1 ansible
  Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    ubuntu-advantage-tools
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  ...

[re9]

No, I dont need help with that :) Just wanted to let others know... Will be installing debian shortly.

[mattl]

Can you post your sources.list and sources.list.d/*?

Also, Ubuntu Pro is free for the first five devices and they just rolled it out so this may just be an error.

EDIT: It looks like at least Ansible isn't in Ubuntu's main repo, it's in Universe...

[re9]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360 seems to have more comments on the same topic.

[re9]

Just noticed - LTS user is still allowed to update ubuntu-advantage-tools. How wonderful.

[runjake]

I flagged this, because it is a dupe of this flagged post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34580360

tl;dr: Canonical isn't keeping security updates hostage. Ubuntu Pro covers Universe packages, which weren't previously covered by official security updates. All the packages in main still get the same security updates as before without requiring Ubuntu Pro.

[re9]

So its the Canonical PR forum? My mistake.