On Oct 11, 2010, at 09:30 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: >Thinking forward to the future, I'd like to see the newest version >of libraries like boost get into the earliest possible release of >Ubuntu. My reasoning here, is that if boost 1.44 is only added >during 11.10, then bugs reported in that release will not likely >have time for an upstream release which has a chance of getting >into 12.04, which will likely be the next LTS. Whereas if we ship >1.44 early, in Natty, then there will be a full 6 month cycle of >Ubuntu to have the library in users' hands, which gives us time to >evaluate and push bugs upstream well before the LTS cycle even >begins. > >I also think its a good idea for us to push a little beyond Debian >when they are frozen. The proper way to do this, IMO, would be to >work hard to get these new releases into Experimental and feed bug >reports back. The more this is done, the better off Debian unstable >will be when squeeze is finally released, right?
This is exactly the rationale and plan for the Python 2.7 transition. -Barry
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