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[Jeff Elkner <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Right on, Mr. Hoffman!  This is definitely the way to do it.

jeff

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Both SchoolTool 1.2 (we're just going to use traditional release
> numbering going forward, btw), and Ubuntu 2009.10 are due out next
> week.
>
> In the past, when we've created a new version, we've updated all the
> packages for the previous releases of Ubuntu.  If you're running
> Intrepid and you apt-get install SchoolTool, you get the latest
> version, not the one released for Intrepid.  This particularly made
> sense since earlier versions of SchoolTool were essentially alphas and
> betas, and people shouldn't have been continuing to use them as more
> stable releases came out.
>
> Going forward, we need to stabilize the process, both because people
> won't want their production SchoolTool deployments unexpectedly
> updating to major new releases, and because as we move to being
> included in Ubuntu proper for Lucid Lynx, we've got to substantially
> rearrange the underlying packaging.
>
> So... this is all subject to change depending on what actually works, but...
>
> SchoolTool 1.2 will probably only be packaged (by us) for Ubuntu 2009.10.
> SchoolTool 1.4 will probably only be packaged (by us) for Ubuntu 2010.4
>
> This leaves out the possibility of anyone else making packages for
> other versions, distros or OS's which anyone can do with some time and
> expertise.  We're not going to do it because maintaining two or three
> differently organized versions of the same releases would be
> prohibitively time consuming and insanity inducing.
>
> What will this mean, in practice?
>
> When we release SchoolTool 1.2, you'll only get it if you upgrade the
> host system to Karmic -- Ubuntu 2009.10.
> When we release SchoolTool 1.4, you'll only get it if you upgrade the
> host system to Lucid -- Ubuntu 2010.4
>
> Again, this is probably the desired behavior anyhow -- you don't want
> "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" to deliver a major revision with
> significant UI changes in the middle of the school year.
>
> The main case where this will cause some difficulty is if you're
> running SchoolTool on a server that has lots of other things going on
> for which you want to stay on an earlier version of Ubuntu, or if for
> some reason you only support an earlier version of Ubuntu.
>
> In either case, I'd recommend moving SchoolTool to a separate virtual machine.
>
> If you have comments, now would be a good time to air them...
>
> --Tom
>
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