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ubuntu to rolling releases?

Started by sdog, March 05, 2013, 07:25:36 AM

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sdog

there's a discussion of dropping 6-monthly ubuntu releases and switch to rolling releases and long term stable releases only. See the thread:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036537.html

Canonical seems to push this, so it's perhaps not too unlikely it will happen.


(my guess is they are tired of thinking of new cool atribute-animal combinations. nothing can beat precise pangolin anyway.

might be of interest with regard of maintaining ubuntu simutrans packages. (not  too much though, since those get taken directly from debian anyways)

cheesehead

Lot of discussion about the concept at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, in progress today and tomorrow ( http://summit.ubuntu.com ). So far, no huge roadblocks...but still lots of unanswered questions.

From the Simutrans perspective, this means the possibility of Ubuntu users getting the latest Simutrans release within a few days or weeks (still being decided) instead of 4-8 months.

sdog

i'm mostly sitting on LTS now, updating more than 3 computers every 3 months is too tedious. A rolling update seems to me as a user rather desirable though.

To actually get new simutrans releases to Ubuntu there would be a bit more needed than the rolling updates. That's whats to be in the next ubuntu release:
"simutrans 111.3.1-1 in amd64 (Release)"

the whole MOTU community and linked processes to maintain packages for ubuntu universe seem very intimidating though.