On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:40:36 AM Chuck Short wrote: > Hi, > > I do not have the statistics in front of me, but I believe most of > users are using LTS releases of Ubuntu. The policy of cherrypicking > fixes from the development releases does not scale in my opinon. We > should offer PPAs for users who want to use a new version of for > example Apache. Or go through the list of packages we support and see > if we can get it to qualify as a micro release update.
We can also do a lot of this through backports. We are very close to having the backports only install packages that users explicitly request from backports (just waiting on an LP change that's in progress), so it will be much safer to use going forward. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
