On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 12:15 +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
has a five-year desktop support term from Canonical, so any bugs in their Inkscape package will potentially haunt us for a very long time!
A sensible FreeDesktop deployment is for app upstreams like us to be removed from the archive and for them to support upstream publishing. But that's an ongoing issue for all upstreams.
For now though; we could ask Ubuntu to support Inkscape's eventual update to the next version much like Firefox updates to next versions within a cycle. Or ask for a trunk version to go in until we get the next version ready for stable. Thoughts?
Should we not have a fixed support time period where we can say to downstreams: Inkscape 0.48.x will be supported until 2015 or some such? We shouldn't have to burn resources supporting very-old deployments just because a distro is still shipping it. Although maybe I'm in the minority, what does everyone else think?
Martin,