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What about security support?

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Heroldich Robin <robinhero@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> But as I know, current phones won't get the snappy based image, so this
> means the end of the support for every phone, doesn't it?
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> *Feladó:* Ubuntu-phone <ubuntu-phone-bounces+robinhero=outlook.hu@lists.
> launchpad.net>, meghatalmazó: Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Elküldve:* 2017. január 5. 15:00:41
> *Címzett:* ubuntu-phone
> *Tárgy:* Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Poor state of support.
>
> Hi,
>
> On 5 January 2017 at 11:49, advocatux <advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Click is dead, and everything must be migrated to snap.
>
> It's not dead, it's sleeping. But yes, snap is 'click 2.0', so
> everyone should move to it.
>
> > * There won't be new phone models until there's a 'snap image'.
>
> I don't know, but that's a reasonable guess.
>
> > * No bug fixes for clicks, every developer is working in snaps.
>
> Depends where the bug(s) is/are. Developers can still update their
> clicks in the store. For click itself, there's not been a lot of
> active development there since snappy came along.
>
> > * There won't be OTA-15, at least as we know it.
>
> I don't know.
>
> > So how can we help to speed up the transition to snap? Any estimated
> > timeline? Any roadmap?
>
> Probably the most useful thing to do right now is build and use snaps.
> Build them with snapcraft, and upload them to the edge channel in the
> store. Once stable, promote to stable channel. This will no doubt
> uncover bugs in snappy [0] and snapcraft [1] which need to be on the
> teams radar.
>
> As for roadmaps for snappy related things, that's a question best
> asked on the snappy mailing list I think.
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
> [0] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy
> [1] - https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft
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