Hey Andres, Andres Rodriguez [2015-02-27 15:32 -0500]: > This is a request to demote MAAS from Main for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. > > MAAS version (1.2) in Ubuntu Precise is no longer maintained upstream and > we are no longer committed to maintain it in Ubuntu. This is a very old > release (we are at 1.7 now) and currently would require a lot of effort to > keep maintaining it, hence we are requesting its demotion.
These are the current versions in precise: maas | 0.1+bzr482+dfsg-0ubuntu1 | precise | source, all maas | 1.2+bzr1373+dfsg-0ubuntu1~12.04.6 | precise-updates | source, all We technically cannot demote packages in stable releases. However, as you already updated the 0.1 version to 1.2, there might be a case to update 1.2 to something newer that you still maintain which is still fully backwards compatible to 1.2. We recently discussed that as part of the SRU exception, too, and I had the impression that you try hard to not break backwards compat? Note that we require filing MIR bugs (like MAAS' in #961344) for exactly this case: it's a commitment to "yes, we want to support this for 5 years", and thus also a promise to people who actually roll this out in production. Finally, if 1.5/1.7 are not backwards compatible to 1.2, and you don't want to update 1.2 any more, what's the minimum maintenance that actually is required on 1.2? As long as it works, it doesn't require updating, and given that it is a mechanism to completely own/control a bunch of hardware, this doesn't appear to be a primary worry for security updates either? Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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