Alpha 1 - Manifest?

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Brendan Donegan wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:25:15PM +0100, Brendan Donegan wrote:
> >>On 01/06/12 14:21, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> >>>Do we know when we'll be dropping the alt installer images? Heck, I'd
> >>>love to just have multi-arch so the i386/x64 can also be the same disc..
> >>>A guy can dream :-)
> >>In Hardware Certification we have at least some systems which are
> >>only installable and therefore certifiable with the alternate image.
> >>Perhaps this shouldn't be the case, but it's worth taking into
> >>account before thinking about dropping the image.
> >In order to take this into account, we would need more information about the
> >issues that prevent these systems from being certified with the desktop
> >image.  Do you have a list of these somewhere?

> We had this issue which prevented us from PxE installing some systems:

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/553609

> This would not stop the systems being certified but would give us a
> major headache. Daniel (cc'ed) can confirm that we do *not* see any
> issues like this in Precise. As it stands we wouldn't be directly
> impacted by the removal of the alternate image. It would be nice to
> have some confidence though that any issues like this encountered
> going forward will be fixed, even if they don't directly impact
> certification or the 'standard' user experience.

I can't speak for the kernel team, but IMHO such bugs should be escalated
via the release meeting reports and UE should commit to fixing them, yes.

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