The LTS/Freexian people are all Debian members/contributors, so I would not say "Freexian is 100% not Debian" is correct. Basically, some Debian folks got together and started a company to get funding to do an LTS, and also offer other paid services.

At least for bullseye, the LTS team supposedly support all packages, except for games and a few other packages. Its trivial to find out which packages aren't supported too, just run a command, no need to email anyone.

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Bullseye https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_pack... https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-security-support/-/bl...

Agreed on the rest, although do note LTS contributors are paid, the security team probably aren't (although some are).

I think in practice, when contrib/non-free stuff has security updates from upstreams, Debian does get updates in stable/LTS. For example the Intel microcode, or WiFi firmware.

I too feel like Debian having LTS is a waste of time, people should be able to upgrade to the next stable within the one year of regular security support for oldstable.

BTW, Ubuntu security support has a similar issue; main is supported, universe is not.