On Monday, March 02, 2015 09:25:22 AM Martin Pitt wrote: > Hey Andres, > > Andres Rodriguez [2015-02-27 15:32 -0500]: > > This is a request to demote MAAS from Main for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. > > > > MAAS version (1.2) in Ubuntu Precise is no longer maintained upstream and > > we are no longer committed to maintain it in Ubuntu. This is a very old > > release (we are at 1.7 now) and currently would require a lot of effort to > > keep maintaining it, hence we are requesting its demotion. > > These are the current versions in precise: > > maas | 0.1+bzr482+dfsg-0ubuntu1 | precise | source, all > maas | 1.2+bzr1373+dfsg-0ubuntu1~12.04.6 | precise-updates | source, all > > We technically cannot demote packages in stable releases. However, as > you already updated the 0.1 version to 1.2, there might be a case to > update 1.2 to something newer that you still maintain which is still > fully backwards compatible to 1.2. We recently discussed that as part > of the SRU exception, too, and I had the impression that you try hard > to not break backwards compat? > > Note that we require filing MIR bugs (like MAAS' in #961344) for > exactly this case: it's a commitment to "yes, we want to support this > for 5 years", and thus also a promise to people who actually roll this > out in production. > > Finally, if 1.5/1.7 are not backwards compatible to 1.2, and you don't > want to update 1.2 any more, what's the minimum maintenance that > actually is required on 1.2? As long as it works, it doesn't require > updating, and given that it is a mechanism to completely own/control a > bunch of hardware, this doesn't appear to be a primary worry for > security updates either?
What's the plan for supporting 1.5 for 14.04 once the next LTS is out? Is this going to come up again? Scott K -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
