SRU

[Tom Marble]

Daniel Holbach wrote:
> I'm still not quite sure that a stable release update is the right thing
> to do. The diff is huge (compared to the version in feisty) and not
> remotely eyeball-able. I think that
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BackportRequestProcess might make more sense.
> 
> I CC the ubuntu-motu@ list, to get more opinions on this one.
> 
> If you still want to try to make it through the SRU process, I can
> answer your questions.

The reason an SRU may still make sense here is that currently the
version in feisty (0.59):
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&subword=1&version=feisty&release=all&keywords=netbeans&sourceid=mozilla-search

Is the one which requires the user to manually download the NetBeans
tarball first.  This significantly diminishes the end user experience
of installation.

Regards,

--Tom