We don't, Xubuntu dropped Wubi support already. Pasi
On 01/04/13 23:18, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote: > After checking #ubuntu-release and seeing that, yes, this is truly not a joke > the question is whether or not we need to worry about this. > > Stephen Michael Kellat > > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:59:35 -0700 > From: Steve Langasek <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Intention to drop Wubi from 13.04 release > > > Dear developers, > > Recent bug reports suggest that the Ubuntu installer for Windows, Wubi, is > not currently in very good shape for a release: > > 13.04 installer doesn't create user account > https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1155704 > > Wubi fails to detect 12.04.2 and 13.04 AMD64 ISO > https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/1134770 > > > Combined with the fact that Wubi has not been updated to work with Windows 8 > (bug #1125604), and the focus on mobile client over desktop, the Foundations > team does not expect Wubi to be in a releasable state for 13.04. > > I am therefore proposing to drop Wubi from the 13.04 release, starting > immediately with the upcoming Beta. This will save our testers from > spending their time testing an image that will not have developers working > on fixing the bugs they find, and spares our users from using an image for > 13.04 that is not up to Ubuntu's standards of quality. > > If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of Wubi so that it > can be released with 13.04 (or if not with 13.04, then with a future > release), I would encourage them to start by looking at the abovementioned > bugs and preparing patches, then talking to the release team. > > Thanks, -- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
