Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

[Pan Shi Zhu]

> So for people who
> switch to Kubuntu in 2011 and want an LTS so they get 10.04... having 10.04's
> CD will mean having to download *many* more updates than having a 10.04.2 CD.

Let's clarify this a bit:

- 10.04 cd releases in 2010.04
- *five months* passed, say 1000 packages upgraded.
- in 2010.09, 10.04.1 releases.
- *another five months* passed, say 1000 packages upgraded.
- in 2011.02 you want to install lucid

here, if you install 10.04.1 in 2011.02 and upgrade you need to
download 1000 packages.

if you install 10.04 and upgrade, will you download 2000 packages? no,
because you most likely don't have to download packages which has been
upgraded more than once. so it is very likely that you need to
download 1100 packages.

in 2011.02, if you install 10.04 then upgrade you may need to download
1100 packages.
in 2011.02, if you install 10.04.1 then upgrade you may need to
download 1000 packages.

Not a big difference really. You will benefit from point-release-cd only if:
1. this package is in the cd. (unlikely, since ubuntu cd contains a
very small set of applications, more than 97% of applications in the
repository are not in the cd)
2. this package has not been upgrade since the latest point release
(unlikely, since ubuntu are upgrading everyday. using a
point-release-cd released at 2010.9 isn't very much helpful if you
install lucid in 2011.2)
3. there has been some upgrade for the installer or boot loader
(unlikely, since point-releases don't update the installer or grub)

So my conclusion: it is very unlikely that a point-release-cd is very
useful to an end-user. and since kubuntu has very few developers, it
is better let the developers developing the next version or providing
better packages than wasting time creating the point-release-cd. (a
daily-build-cd may be much more useful then, which actually takes less
effort if you had setup a script). point-release-cd isn't mandatory,
xubuntu does not have 8.04.2 and 8.04.3 point-release-cd, and it is
still an LTS version.