On Wed, 14 Aug 2024, Alan Pope via GLLUG wrote:
It's not that they are holding back fixes to packages that were previously
available. They simply were not available. Ubuntu Pro is providing updates
to packages that previously were not in scope, and so didn't happen.
Unfortunately, the amount of work to update packages and backport fixes far
exceeds the number of open source community members to maintain them. Same
as many open source projects these days.
What's changed is Canonical are offering this (backporting selected fixes)
as a paid service to their enterprise customers. Supporting those paying
customers by backporting fixes they would never have had before. Canonical
is enabling customers to accelerate and focus development effort on
packages Canonical would previously not have touched. Like most software
companies, if you pay, you get attention. This isn't exactly new.
They then make that paid work available for free to the Ubuntu community if
they enable Ubuntu Pro.
Isn't this the Freexian elts model for Debian?
AFAIAA, anybody can get the fixed packages. (I haven't tried). The
paying customers get to decide which packages get fixes.
Tim.
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