[ubuntu-studio-devel] Backports PPA

[Ross Gammon]

Glad to hear the official Backports have been resurrected. Someone new 
to Ubuntu Studio and not aware of the ppa, is likely to follow the 
standard Ubuntu instructions to enable backports. Installing from a ppa 
is always a last resort for me.

I had to think a little bit about the decision not to backport to 
non-LTS releases. If someone installs a backport on an LTS, then 
upgrades their system to each intermediate release, they will only ever 
be 6 months behind the latest upstream release until they are back on 
the LTS (and re-enable backports).

If someone is more desperate than that, they can probably ask here on 
the list for a special ppa, or we can provide a link to instructions to 
do it for themselves?

Cheers,

Ross

PS: Sorry about the delay. I missed the email amongst all the automated 
build emails! :-)

On 29.03.2023 17.04, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
> As you all know, for the past several years, we've been maintaining a 
> backports PPA for our users to add to their systems to get updated 
> software. This has worked well for several reasons.
>
>
> However, the Ubuntu Backporters team has been resurrected and is very 
> active. To give it a try, I backported studio-controls from Lunar to 
> 22.04 LTS and was successful.
>
>
> With that, I believe this should be the way we should backport 
> packages in the future, and perhaps even sunset the backports PPA. One 
> thing to keep in mind is that the official backports repository only 
> supports LTS releases, which means we would only be backporting only 
> to the latest supported LTS and not the regular releases.
>
>
> Another approach could be backporting via the backports repo for the 
> LTS releases but keeping the backports PPA active for the regular 
> releases, but I'd rather not do this as it just feels sloppy and a 
> work-around to change process.
>
>
> I'd love to hear your thoughts about this. Thanks!
>
>
> -- 
>
> Erich Eickmeyer
>
> Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
>
>
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