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[Philipp Wollermann <wollermann_philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 5, 2012, at 18:47, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> Philipp Wollermann wrote:
>> am I right, that the official packages of openstack (nova) for Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) were never updated to Diablo 2011.3.1 and no bug-fixes from after the initial release were ever included?
>> I checked the change log of the nova packages, and it seems like the maintainers only fixed security issues.
> 
> The stable/diablo branches, and the resulting 2011.3.1 release, are a
> cross-distro effort to maintain a stable version of past releases. Each
> distribution of OpenStack follows its own rules on what patches it
> backports, in the case of Ubuntu itself, it follows:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Thank you for the explanation. I understand that some users would rather live with known unfixed bugs than the risk of introducing new ones through a fix and that this is the way Ubuntu handles updates to packages.

However, I was wondering, because nova is already part of the SRU process, yet the latest version of nova in ubuntu-proposed is hanging in this state since 4 months. Even if it ever gets released to ubuntu-updates, it's probably outdated again.

It's totally acceptable if Ubuntu chooses to handle their packages like this, providing a very stable and reliable base system - though as it is also the primary and kind of "official" platform for OpenStack deployments, I think it would be greatly appreciated if there would be an officially maintained PPA which contains the most up-to-date stable release of OpenStack for the latest version(s) of Ubuntu.
Then, users themselves could choose whether to trust and track the official releases or stick to Ubuntu's releases.

Best regards,

-- 
Philipp Wollermann

Infrastructure Engineer
CyberAgent, Inc. (Tokyo)
https://github.com/philwo