Meta-package naming for Xenial LTS backports

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On 07/29/2016 10:37 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 08:40:46AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> >> On 07/27/2016 08:04 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> >>> We have been discussing some naming for new meta-packages to allow for
> >>> automatic rolling upgrades between Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels
> >>> within the LTS series.  This thread aims to firm those up.
> >>>
> >>> Currently we have meta-packages of the following forms:
> >>>
> >>>     linux{,-image,-headers,-signed,-tools}-<flavour>[-<variant>]
> >>>
> >>> The flavour then represents the primary use case for the kernel (for
> >>> example generic and lowlatency) and the optional variant currently is
> >>> used to identify the HWE kernels (lts-<series>).  For example:
> >>>
> >>>     linux-image-generic-lts-xenial
> >>>
> >>> The desire is to offer a rolling HWE kernel, this means a kernel
> variant
> >>> which is updated automatically to the latest available HWE kernel
> within
> >>> the LTS.  We would expect that to update to the next HWE kernel at each
> >>> point release.  We wish to offer this in two forms, rolling until we
> >>> reach the next LTS release and continuing to roll after an upgrade.
> >>> Finally we wish to be able to offer early accesss to these updates as
> >>> soon as they are available for testing purposes.
> >>>
> >>> We are proposing the following variants:
> >>>
> >>>     -hwe-16.04
> >>>     -hwe-rolling
> >>>     -hwe-16.04-early
> >>>     -hwe-rolling-early
> >>>
> >>> So for example:
> >>>
> >>>     linux-generic-hwe-16.04
> >>>
> >>> /me puts up some substantial scaffolding round his bikeshed.
> >>>
> >>> -apw
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think the first 2 are fine. What is your intended use for "-early" ?
> >> I'm reluctant to endorse something like "-early" if it isn't a release
> >> requirement. Otherwise it'll get forgotten and grow stale.
> >
> > The intent of -early is it updated on the same cadance as the main ones,
> > but it switches from lts-Y to lts-Z on first availability rather than
> > waiting for the point release.  So they are the same much of the time,
> > then when a new lts-Z is available that one will switch to it, we
> > stablise it, and then the non -early one moves over to join it.
> >
> > -apw
> >
>
> In the interest of bike shedding, perhaps "-dev" would be more descriptive.
>

I like "-preview", anyone else want to pick a color?

Thanks,
Leann
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