[Twirrim]

> Debian LTS only has 5 years of support, without guarantees, on a volunteer basis.

Less than that if you care about security patches. Debian's Security team stop after ~18-24 months, at which point it transitions off to, quote, "Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian Security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success.".

[creatonez]

In practice I don't think this is a huge problem. It seems the Debian LTS team only gives up on maintaining packages once it becomes nearly completely impractical to do so.

For example, here are the unsupported packages in Debian 10. These are the sorts of packages that don't get included with RHEL or SLES in the first place. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/bl...