Hi Christian, On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:25:16AM -0000, ChristianEhrhardt wrote: > In the sense that you describe it about every package in Xenial is now > "two years out of date", because the policy to not break on what users > already use has a lot of implicatons [1]
> One tries to address bug-fixes in an isolated testable way as good as > possible, but such a major update is rare. Even minor release updates > (less bumps than this case) have to follow a very strict process with > [2] as examples. > The way out of this is [3] where people can prepare newer versions > without affecting the world as it is mostly opt-in and thereby not > affecting the majority of users who consider themselves safe by the SRU > policy. > > I currently have no cycles to spare on this, so if this is urgent for > you I wanted to ask if you are willing and able to start driving this > bug along the Ubuntu Backport Process [4]? > > [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates > [2]: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases > [3]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports > [4]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports With my SRU team hat on, I will say that open-vm-tools clearly falls into the class of packages that have a "platform enablement" (née "hardware enablement") exception to the usual bugfix-only rule. Care must of course still be taken to test the updates and avoid regressions, but in cases where the package must be updated from upstream to maintain compatibility with the moving target of the OS's substrate (whether that's hardware, or a cloud platform, or a VM platform), the requirement to selectively cherry-pick bugfixes is waived. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741390 Title: Package two years out of date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
