The relevant line from the meeting minutes is this one:
* Enable users to continuously track the development focus of Ubuntu as a
"rolling release" rather than having to explicitly upgrade
For: 0 Against: 3 Abstained: 0
But if you say that "With the incoming plans for the development release
to be a 'rolling release'" is not, in fact, the premise of this bug
report, I shall take you at your word, and mark this Won't Fix instead.
The reason is simple. It is a very bad idea to sell software that
doesn't work. Ubuntu relies on many upstream projects that do not
promise ABI compatibility. So whenever a new version of Ubuntu is
released, all commercial applications offered for the previous release
need testing to ensure they run on the new version. Currently this
requires person-weeks of work, and that will only increase as the number
of applications increases. They can't be tested by volunteers, because
that would require giving away free copies of applications when we don't
have the right to do that. So they need testing by Canonical staff. And
Canonical does not, and almost certainly never will, have the budget to
re-test all commercial applications after every ABI-affecting update to
the in-development version of Ubuntu.
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Unable to install previously purchased software in current ubuntu
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