Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

2018-02-02 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2018-02-03 00:05, Robie Basak wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: Can anyone please consider that? Sounds like a great idea! Are you volunteering to write and maintain this support? If not, then I feel that this should be an FAQ item.

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

2018-02-02 Thread Robie Basak
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: > Can anyone please consider that? Sounds like a great idea! Are you volunteering to write and maintain this support? If not, then I feel that this should be an FAQ item. Ideas are great and we aren't short of them. What we

Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

2018-02-02 Thread Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας
A few months ago, I had Ubuntu 12.04 (knowing it had reached its EOL) on my PC. I wanted to upgrade to Kubuntu 14.04, but the installer only let me delete it or format the entire disk. The same happened when I first installed Xubuntu 16.04 last year. Also, Lubuntu had the same issue. That was

Re: Ubuntu Monthly Update Cadence Proposal

2018-02-02 Thread Bryan Quigley
> Stability means: no changes in functionality. Ah, this is the key point of my proposal. Stability for my purposes means predictability when changes in functionality will occur. > 4. Apt is geared towards advancement, not retreat. Meta packages can't be > used to uninstall, and rarely to

Re: Ubuntu Monthly Update Cadence Proposal

2018-02-02 Thread Bryan Quigley
>> The hard part from my point of view is deciding as a project what we >> want to define couplings for, what the couplings should be, and what >> gets priority generally. > > the python stack, the php stack, and others might be loosely coupled, but > throwing a few library transitions makes them

Will there be an up to date version of cmake in Bionic?

2018-02-02 Thread Raphael Grimm
Hello, the current build of Bionic ships cmake-3.9.5. Will the final release ship cmake-3.10? This version has some bug fixes  and new useful features compared to 3.9. Regards, rg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list