Am 21.05.2009 um 19:11 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Shipping a new machine with hardy plus some extra Dell repo for new > stuff is just fine for them, if that's how they see they can benefit > their customers best. Arguably they should ask us to do official > backports and use those, but since we don't throw a lot of QA at them, > they don't lose much with doing them themselves.
From the article: > We go the extra mile in double qualifying all updates (that one > would see in stock 8.10 and 9.04) and only publish those that are > rock-stable. To me, this sounds much like a fork of Ubuntu, just without a new name. Stick with 8.04 as a base, re-do all changes from there on. Have fun with people mixing up Canonical-Ubuntu with Dell-Ubuntu. > But it's a totally different thing to impose that new stuff as forced > updates to _existing installations_, especially with LTS. Obviously, they trust them selves to reliably avoid regressions and trust their customers not to complain about new features. We'll see. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
