On 14 January 2014 12:55, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
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?
I'm not convinced that they'd support stable-release updates for non-core packages. They're normally pretty good about bug-fix backports though.
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?
Potentially, although I think that pre-planned support deadlines need to be accompanied by time-based releases!
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?
Agreed in principle, although in this instance we already have a bugfix release virtually ready to roll so we're not really having to do much! Given that Ubuntu LTS is such a large user-base for us, my thoughts are that we'll have less hassle supporting a 0.48.5 downstream package than we will with 0.48.4. Naturally, I'd prefer to see a 0.91 package downstream, but it won't be ready in time for the next Ubuntu LTS.
AV