Please demote maas 1.2 from Ubuntu Precise

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, March 02, 2015 09:25:22 AM Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hey Andres,
> 
> Andres Rodriguez [2015-02-27 15:32 -0500]:
> > This is a request to demote MAAS from Main for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise.
> > 
> > MAAS version (1.2) in Ubuntu Precise is no longer maintained upstream and
> > we are no longer committed to maintain it in Ubuntu. This is a very old
> > release (we are at 1.7 now) and currently would require a lot of effort to
> > keep maintaining it, hence we are requesting its demotion.
> 
> These are the current versions in precise:
> 
>  maas | 0.1+bzr482+dfsg-0ubuntu1          | precise          | source, all
>  maas | 1.2+bzr1373+dfsg-0ubuntu1~12.04.6 | precise-updates  | source, all
> 
> We technically cannot demote packages in stable releases. However, as
> you already updated the 0.1 version to 1.2, there might be a case to
> update 1.2 to something newer that you still maintain which is still
> fully backwards compatible to 1.2. We recently discussed that as part
> of the SRU exception, too, and I had the impression that you try hard
> to not break backwards compat?
> 
> Note that we require filing MIR bugs (like MAAS' in #961344) for
> exactly this case: it's a commitment to "yes, we want to support this
> for 5 years", and thus also a promise to people who actually roll this
> out in production.
> 
> Finally, if 1.5/1.7 are not backwards compatible to 1.2, and you don't
> want to update 1.2 any more, what's the minimum maintenance that
> actually is required on 1.2? As long as it works, it doesn't require
> updating, and given that it is a mechanism to completely own/control a
> bunch of hardware, this doesn't appear to be a primary worry for
> security updates either?

What's the plan for supporting 1.5 for 14.04 once the next LTS is out?  Is 
this going to come up again?

Scott K