| This is pretty much how it's always been, LTS gets 5 years of support, then after it goes EOL you can pay Canonical for backported security updates to important packages. What I'm not clear on is the relationship(s) between: * Canonical's LTS lifecycle/extended support scheme, * the linked deb.sury.org repository, * and https://www.freexian.com/lts/php/ It sounds like deb.sury.org is voluntarily halting _their_ PHP packaging for the EOL Ubuntu release, and recommending this alternative vendor Freexian instead (why not recommend Canonical ESM, do they not do PHP?) The claim being that "it's not possible to build the packages any more" but I'm not sure why this would be, necessarily. More a technicality because the upstream distro will be gone/paywalled so a downstream PPA can't reasonably provide support? But then how is the other vendor doing it? (Looking closer, Freexian's PHP packager appears to be the same guy running deb.sury.org so while it _is_ turtles all the way down, none of this seems unreasonable to me) |