Ubuntu Unity participation in LTS

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 05:49:59PM +0530, Rudra Saraswat wrote:
> Thank you for your response.

> > Flavor's support plan presented to Tech Board and approved; support plan
> > should indicate period of time if beyond 18 months (3 yrs or 5 yr), key
> > contacts, and setting expectations as to level of support.

> As with our previous non-LTS releases, we expect to support the LTS for 3
> years, not 5.

Ok.

> Maik is in fact on IRC ("Maik" on Libera).

Ok; note that this is not the IRC nick listed on the referenced wiki page :)

> We plan to continue maintaining the Unity package set, releasing fixes for
> bugs and security issues, as well as any issues that might prop up in other
> related packages in general use by Ubuntu Unity users.

> > Since Canonical is no longer the upstream for Unity, do you
> > yourself the upstream now for the unity packages?  I see
> > debian/control for the unity source package still points
> > https://launchpad.net/unity, but this is owned by ~unity-team
> > has only ubuntu-core-dev and Canonical employees as members.
> > latest unity package has an upstream version number
> > '7.7.0+23.04.20230222.2' but there is no corresponding .orig.tar.xz
> > as part of the source, this is a native package; the debian/watch
> > file also points back at https://launchpad.net/unity, which has 7.4.0
> > as its latest release tarball.  So it is entirely unclear to me what
> > the version number in this package is meant to indicate.

> Most of our development revolves around the main 'unity' package,
> which is in active development, while the other packages are, like you
> mentioned, in maintenance mode. (unless there are significant changes
> necessitated by changes in the main Unity codebase)

> We haven't added any releases to the Unity Launchpad project, as it
> simply serves as a host for the Launchpad Unity Git repository and
> meets our needs. mitya57, a core-dev and member of our team and
> package uploader, helps up keep
> https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity (where we maintain the
> Unity codebase) and the Launchpad repo in sync, which is used as an
> upstream for all the distributions that offer Unity, and the Launchpad
> repo is just used to build the Unity packages, nothing more.

If https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity/unity is where you are doing
upstream development, could you please update the metadata in the package to
reflect this?

> Sorry for the late response btw. It was only a few minutes ago that I
> realized you had already replied (I just received jbicha's email), as
> I haven't received either of your two replies for some reason.

Nothing late about it, we have months yet before these discussions need to
be concluded.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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