Hi Kaj, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:27:21PM +0100, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, at 06:00 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I think the point that Dimitri is making is that it makes no sense to > > say that UbuntuStudio will have 5 years of (community security) support, > > if it depends on a desktop environment that won't have security support > > for that same time period. While you could decide to provide 5-year > > support for only the multimedia packages, I don't think we on the TB > > would be happy to sign off on saying UbuntuStudio as a flavor has 5-year > > support when the DE on the UbuntuStudio images only has 3 years of > > support.
> > So I think the UbuntuStudio and Xubuntu communities should discuss this > > and reach an agreement on which support period to use for these shared > > components, and set their LTS support accordingly. > From what I can tell, there has been no updates to any essential XFCE > package in Precise since it was released. Am I wrong? > (xfce4-weather-plugin is the only one I can find available in > precise-updated, and I don't seem to be able to find anything else > packaged past 2011). > I understand the concept of providing security support - fixing bugs - > especially if severe ones are found. And that I am prepared to do, past > the three year Xubuntu support period. > In practical terms, what would the real issue be, if Ubuntu Studio > decides to continue supporting the LTS for five years, making sure there > are new ISOS out for every point release? If you on the UbuntuStudio team are committing to 5 years of support for all of the packages on the UbuntuStudio ISO, including those that are part of Xubuntu, then that's fine; I just had the impression from your earlier answer that you weren't committing to this, but were instead saying that you considered support for the Xfce packages irrelevant. I realize that the risk that critical updates will be required for Xfce is small; the question is whether someone is taking responsibility for providing those updates in the unlikely circumstance that such updates are required. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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