On 20 October 2010 00:07, Chris Coulson <chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 23:58 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: >> On 19 October 2010 23:32, Tony Doherty <tony.dohe...@zen.co.uk> wrote: >> > I am always keen to update to the latest releases of Ubuntu. >> > >> > However, can I ask - if I were to stick with a LTS version such as 10.4 >> > long term - would this version eventually receive updates to upgrade to >> > the latest versions of, say, FireFox and OpenOffice when they become >> > available? >> > >> >> Generally no. The software versions stay as they are when that version >> of Ubuntu was released. The only updates are to fix bugs. Sometimes >> this means updating to a new bugfix release of given software, >> sometimes it means Ubuntu manually applying bugfixes in their >> packages. > > Well, the LTS *will* get a new version of Firefox in the future (once > 3.6 is end-of-life), although it will most likely skip 4.0. >
Exactly why I qualified my "no" with "generally" and linked to the SRU wiki page for the further curious ;) Matthew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
