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18.04 LTS still has general support until April 2023, the patch for USN-5931-1 was released March 7th 2023. As march is before April, and this is a security patch, this should have been included in support offered via LTS. Why was this decided to be only offered for ESM?

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guiverc@d7050-next:/de2900/lubuntu$   rmadison python3.8
 python3.8 | 3.8.0-3ubuntu1~18.04.2  | bionic-security/universe | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 python3.8 | 3.8.0-3ubuntu1~18.04.2  | bionic-updates/universe  | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 python3.8 | 3.8.2-1ubuntu1          | focal                    | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 python3.8 | 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.7 | focal-security           | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
 python3.8 | 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04.7 | focal-updates            | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x

The packages fixed are found in universe in bionic or 18.04 ( see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.8 where you'll note it is a 'universe' package) meaning the security fix requires ESM or Pro.

Only packages in 'main' get security fixes for non-ESM/non-Pro systems. Security fixes for 'universe' packages is a new feature added by Ubuntu Pro.

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