On 04.05.2017 00:13, N. W. wrote: >> Timo Aaltonen wrote: Because just to get it all built on xenial >> takes time. Then after it's all good on a staging ppa it'll get >> pushed to xenial-proposed. Once all the dozens of packages have >> been reviewed and ACKed, it needs testing. It also takes time. >> >> So no, I have zero interest in doing -edge copies of the X stack. >> Feel free to test the staging ppa if you want. You'll know when >> it's available. (hint: later this month) > > Well, might as well make Ubuntu a rolling release then. Instead of > "wasting" time to release a new graphics stack for 16.10/17.04/17.10 > and then backport it to 16.04, you could as well just have dropped > 16.10/17.04/17.10 and only release it for 16.04.
It would still have to be released to the rolling release first, so I don't see much changing here. Backporting takes effort, and I don't mean pushing the packages but making them build on the LTS. -- t -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
