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[Peter van der Does <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:30:06 +0000
João Luís Marques Pinto <joao.pinto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Peter van der Does wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:46:36 +0100
> > João Luís Marques Pinto <joao.pinto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   >> Hello,
> >> as planned the 8.10 RC was released yesterday, the ABS is now setup
> >> to build for Intrepid.
> >>     >
> > Does this mean we're not building for Hardy anymore even though
> > Hardy is a LTS release?
> >
> >
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> >   Peter,
> most of us are switching to Intrepid.
> Packaging and testing 2 releases represents a major effort increase.
> I personally do not see any reason for a desktop user to keep with
> Hardy instead of upgrading to Intrepid.
> 
> I think we should concentrate on having 1 release properly supported
> (which is already hard) instead of having 2 with lower quality/less
> packages.
> 
> Please note that despite my personal idea about using LTS on the
> desktop, from a technical perspective I think we should keep building
> for LTS, the issue here is the lack of human resources.
> 
> If we get enough people willing to package for Hardy without
> compromise Intrepid's packaging, then it's a different story, we
> would just need to make sure that our release system tools will work
> fine with dual releases.
> 

I agree with you and I actually upgraded to Intrepid yesterday, spend
about a day on compiling a new kernel as they changed the way a kernel
is build (*SIGH*), but that's a topic for my blog to write up. I
digress :) 

According to the scope of GetDeb:
Packages will be provided for the "current" Ubuntu release, extended
time maybe provided for LTS releases based on workforce availability
for such releases. The provided software ranges from popular software
updates to emerging software which was not yet able to get into the
Ubuntu software repositories.

Maybe we can set something up where people can request Hardy "backports"
of GetDeb packages we created for Intrepid, but not new packages. Of
course within our limits like workforce availability and compatibility
with existing Hardy packages.

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Peter van der Does

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