16.04.2 should have Mesa 13.0.4 out-of-the-box

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 7 15:56:43 UTC 2017


On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 06:48:01PM +0300, Mard Ward wrote:
> Mesa 13.0.4 has been released recently, and it is a good idea to
> include Mesa 13.0.4 to ubuntu 16.04.2 before its release.

Nope.  That's not how this works.  16.04.2 will ship with the 16.10
X stack (including Mesa 12.0.6), and 16.04.3 will ship with the 17.04
stack, which will include Mesa 13.0.x.

"Upstream released a new version" is not the deciding factor for what
goes into an LTS release.

... Adam



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