Intro and LTS point release question

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:25:00PM -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> Hello, I just subscribed to the mailing list. I'm not a developer,
> just a user/tester.

Hi!

> Some of you may recognize me as Erick Brunzell from Launchpad or
> lbsolost from the QA Tracker.
> 
> I recently pushed for a fix to a bug where adding
> 'gnome-session-flashback' to Ubuntu GNOME provided a "Flashback
> (Compiz)" session at login even though 'compiz' was not installed:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/1332183

Thanks!

> I'd already tested the changes in Ubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, and Edubuntu
> Utopic without an issue, and just yesterday I tested the proposed
> change in both Ubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME Trusty using the 20140701 iso
> images to perform fresh installs.
> 
> I just wondered if Edubuntu was planning on a Trusty 14.04.1 point
> release? If so when the daily images resume building I'd like to
> test choosing flashback as the default session during an
> installation just in an overabundance of caution. I suppose though
> that I'd get the same result if I just ran apt-get update from the
> live DE before beginning the installation.


Edubuntu will participate in 14.04.1 as we did for all the point
releases of 12.04 LTS in the past.

Daily builds of trusty have recently been re-enabled to start preparing
14.04.1 but due to a Launchpad issue that's still being resolved, we
haven't had a single good build since.

> Regarding Precise I have a hardware specific corner issue that's
> caused me to keep using the archived 12.04.1 images so I wondered if
> Edubuntu is going to have a 12.04.5 build with the Trusty hardware
> enablement stack?

Yes, we will.

> Neither issue is a big deal at all but I caught a brief blurb at the
> Ubuntu GNOME QA mailing list leading up to Utopic Alpha 1 that led
> me to believe Edubuntu may be opting out of interim releases
> altogether and focusing only on LTS (good idea IMHO) so I thought
> I'd seek clarification.
> 
> Thanks,

You're welcome.

> 
> Lance
> 
> PS: Feel free to request testing any time and I'll be glad to do my best.
> 
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Stéphane Graber
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