Lisi: > > I am just sorry that they have changed it at all. Ubuntu now has 5 year > support for its long term supported version. Such a pity that Debian is > going the other way. :-(
This comparison is a bit unfair since Ubuntu officially only supports its "main" repository which is, as far as I know, considerably smaller than Debian's "main". And the LTS promise isn't kept for all flavours or parts of Ubuntu.[1] AFAIU, Ubuntu's upgrade policy for stable releases isn't as strict as Debian's either.[2] So while Debian's stable releases aren't supported as long as Ubuntu's LTS releases, Debian support covers more packages and is more conservative in what it includes -- even if that means more work. And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5. J. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS The LTS designation applies only to specific subsets of the Ubuntu archive. The LTS may not apply to all flavors and remixes of Ubuntu. For example, for 8.04 LTS, Kubuntu chose to move to KDE 4.0 and didn't issue an LTS release. In 10.04, the Netbook Edition was not an LTS. The project will decide which flavors will be LTS and the support duration for each, early in the LTS development cycle. [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates In some cases, when upstream fixes bugs, they do a new microrelease instead of just sending patches. If all of the changes are appropriate for an SRU by the criteria above, then it is acceptable (and usually easier) to just upload the complete new upstream microrelease instead of backporting the individual patches. Note that some noise introduced by autoreconf is okay, but making structural changes to the build system (such as introducing new library dependencies) is generally not. If a new upstream release has more intrusive changes, you need to request an exception from the Technical Board, especially if you are going to upload the package with non-SRU changes multiple times in the future. Please see special cases below. -- I like my Toyota RAV4 because of the commanding view of the traffic jams. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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