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Related to the thing: I like mature and safe transitions, specially if is supposed to run in production.
From my POV, and knowing I already take care if something for new Debian releases, Ubuntu, even in LTS, is the worse what I could wish because they release unreleased and/or unstable software, which did not even pass Debian releases statuses.
Is this true even for the point LTS releases?
Yes.
Ubuntu 24.04 is equivalent to Debian 13, except Ubuntu 24.04 was released last year.
Every Ubuntu version is based on a copy of Debian Sid, which is the unstable branch.
Eventually, they incorporate Debian patches too but keep some packages in different versions (libpng, the kernel, openssl and similar are the most I remember but they change between releases).
Thank you, I see what you mean. I think there’s a flaw in this logic, but I would rather not dive deeper into this topic.