overlap or pre-announcement for point release ISO downloads

Anthony Kirby anthony.kirby at oxbotica.com
Wed Mar 2 09:11:26 UTC 2022


On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 19:09, dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 03:44:17PM +0000, Anthony Kirby wrote:
> > Thank you for the recent point release of Focal, i.e. 20.04.4!
> >
> > When the 20.04.4 point release was announced (
> >
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2022-February/000277.html
> ),
> > the previous point release server download  i.e.
> > https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso
> was
> > removed.
> >
> > Could you consider an overlap period, so that people who consume this
> have
> > an opportunity to update their processes?  A week of overlap before the
> the
> > previous version is deleted would be really helpful.  Or alternatively an
> > announcement that the switch was about to occur would give people a
> chance
> > to prepare.
>
> Hi Anthony!
>
>   I'm not a release team member, but I'm curious about your use
> case. If you are e.g. scripting a download of the ISO, would it be
> possible to build in an automatic fallback to the old-releases
> archive?
>
>   https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/
>
>   -dann
>

Hi dann,
thank you, that's a good solution, I wasn't aware that old-releases existed.
cheers
Anthony
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