Ubuntu artwork poll

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 07:39:41PM +0300, Ville Vainio wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 17:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The problem about remastering the CD image is that it simply doesn't
> > work: as soon as somebody upgrades from the network, they'll get the old
> > artwork back, and you can't forbid people to upgrade from the network
> > because they need to be able to get security updates.
> 
> There surely can't be a technical reason why ISOs with different
> artworks couldn't happen. Make the artwork debs check in the package
> script whether /etc/i_dont_want_benetton_on_my_desktop exists and
> abstain from installing the controversial artwork if that is the case.

I proposed a debconf question for this purpose, but was told that the
extra code path was not an option at this point in the warty release.

> Of course this would require co-operation from Canonical. Forking the
> distro would be stupid-stupid-stupid if Canonical could just put two
> official and supported isos available for download.

Unfortunately, that requires double the testing, which is a pretty
serious concern at this point in the proceedings, and it would require a
considerable amount of rework behind the scenes to make it possible. We
won't build release install CD images with packages that aren't in the
Ubuntu archive; doing so is asking for trouble further down the line.

I also think it's mad to have two ISO images rather than one that
everyone can accept. Inviting combinatorial explosion is just a really
bad plan. (At what point would we require four CD images, then eight,
then ...?)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]