Follow-up: decision timeline for whether to include i386 in 20.04 [Was Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386]

2019-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello, A belated follow-up to this discussion. On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 02:43:57PM -0700, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > On 2018-05-14 12:38, Steve Langasek wrote: > > this is a cost largely paid by Canonical (both in terms of > > infrastructure, and in terms of engineering work t

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
likely that, having taken the decision to drop the architecture, we would then decide to reintroduce it. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
ould continue bearing these costs out of pocket on the grounds that some other companies are unwilling to update their software to an ISA from this millennium :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move

Re: Proposal: Let's drop i386

2018-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
for 20.04-based Ubuntu Core, we also wouldn't pull them from the archive until a decision is made *not* to support them. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Develo

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
this. Most people don't look at this information, however; I think that for packages that we know won't be LTS security-supportable on a particular architecture, we should consider dropping those binaries from the archive as well. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lo

Re: Support status of nginx in Ubuntu 14.04LTS expired in Feburary 2015?

2016-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:33:49PM +, Adam Conrad wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > E, no. Anything that's in main is LTS-supported. As of 16.04, this > > should be 100% guaranteed; if it's not supported it wouldn'

Re: Support status of nginx in Ubuntu 14.04LTS expired in Feburary 2015?

2016-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
d of support that we mean when we talk about the support that Canonical provides for packages in main - and which does encompass all of main, not just packages that are seeded on images. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Final Freeze approaching

2010-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Jamie, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:31:51AM -0500, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 03:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - For packages in universe that aren't seeded in any of the Ubuntu flavors, > >this final freeze is nominal; packages must be manu

Re: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
the resources to track down all such upstream fixes themselves, so the best way to help get a bug like this fixed is if you can help identify the upstream commit that fixes the bug. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it

Re: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Leslie, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:58:41AM +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Steve Langasek > wrote: > > If you have bugs which you believe should be listed there but aren't yet, > > please get in touch with me or another member of the rele

Re: Main frozen for Alpha 6

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
oblem on xfs, which has been an install option for years. So this is a sound reason for users to not use ext4 for their Ubuntu 9.04 installs if system reliability is a problem for them (as it is for most of us), but not a reason for pulling ext4 out of the release. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Notable Changes to Jaunty's PulseAudio

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ime for release. Thank > you for helping test-drive jaunty! What has been the outcome of this testing? The upgrade was fairly painless for me, but I know that may not be indicative; are there still race conditions outstanding that pose a risk to the stability of the jaunty release? -- Steve L

Re: Improving resume speed

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
s a possibility for Karmic. > That should make the flicker time for graphics after resuming from suspend > shorten considerably. I believe he's talking about hibernate rather than suspend, where the largest cost is reading the kernel image back from disk. -- Steve Langasek

Re: Deleting an alpha iso for the safety of users hardware

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Langasek
nstalling the intrepid kernel on a Debian etch system. That's not exactly something that would have been prevented by pulling the alphas. So there's not really any evidence that leaving the alpha images up was a reckless decision. From what I see, the announcements and warnings that w

Re: Release Team 20080808 meeting minutes

2008-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Oi Fernando, On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:33:13PM +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote: > Olá Steve e a todos. > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:24:24 Steve Langasek wrote: > > Please find below the meeting minutes from the August 8 release meeting, > > also available in the

Re: Intrepid Alpha 1 delayed

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:21:15AM -0400, Cyrus Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Steve Langasek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > According to the published Intrepid release schedule at > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule>, the first Intre

Re: hardy release freeze, coming soon to an archive near you

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Langasek
Ciao Vincenzo, On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:54:32AM +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/04/2008 alle 12.36 -0700, Steve Langasek ha scritto: > > Hi Wouter, > > > > If there are other bugs that you believe are important to fix before > > > > the &

Re: hardy release freeze, coming soon to an archive near you

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Wouter, On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:08:36PM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Steve Langasek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The list of release-critical bugs is tracked here: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04 >

Re: Hardy Alpha 6 released

2008-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
his same error, so the best way to get it fixed for the official release is to make sure yourself that it's reported. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubu