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Expand security policy to cover previous stable branch

See merge request GNOME/glib!3597
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## Supported versions
Only the most recent unstable and stable release series are supported. All
older versions are not supported upstream and may contain bugs, some of
which may be exploitable security vulnerabilities.
Upstream GLib only supports the most recent stable release series, the previous
stable release series, and the current development release series. All
older versions are not supported upstream and may contain bugs, some of which
may be exploitable security vulnerabilities.
See [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) for more details.

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## Supported Versions
Upstream GLib only supports the most recent stable release series, and the
current development release series. Any older stable release series are no
longer supported, although they may still receive backported security updates
in long-term support distributions. Such support is up to the distributions,
though.
Upstream GLib only supports the most recent stable release series, the previous
stable release series, and the current development release series. Any older
stable release series are no longer supported, although they may still receive
backported security updates in long-term support distributions. Such support is
up to the distributions, though.
The previous stable release series will generally receive fixes only for high
impact security issues, at maintainer discretion. Since such issues are rare,
it's expected that there may be no backports or releases on the previous stable
branch.
Under GLib’s versioning scheme, stable release series have an *even* minor
component (for example, 2.66.0, 2.66.1, 2.68.3), and development release series