[Hoary] Upgrade to Hoary

[Ben Novack]

I don't think it's neccessarily a specific timepoint; it's a matter of
specific programs. For example, I've been very tempted by backports -
but held off - because of Firefox 1.0 and the latest Blam!. Plenty of
other stuff has been updated - gaim comes to mind - but if they'd
slipped in under the radar, I think I wouldn't care about backports.
Mono 1.1.4 will probably tempt me in Hoary, since it's supposed to be
better in all ways despite being a beta.

On the other hand... 6 months does feel like a reasonable cycle for a
whole new release. Perhaps a policy might be in order where certain
very widespread or crticial apps - Mono, firefox, OO.o - could be
eligable for an official backporting in the event of a major update?

The problem with trading stability for new software is that it's a
*huge* stability loss for a relatively minor gain. That's the nature
of running a release that's still months away from completion.
Backporting, for all the problems it can cause when upgrading, is a
great way to maintain stability while getting that one program you
want updated.


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:02:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:57:18AM +0100, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:40:05 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Indeed.  If you plan to upgrade to Hoary, you should purge any packages you
> > > installed from this archive first.
> >
> > Yes, I've sworn off backports for Hoary. The good news is that it has
> > become much less of a temptation. The Hoary packages are generally at
> > a very good stage.
> 
> At what point did the backports become a temptation for Warty?  I like to
> think that 6 months is too long to wait for a new stable release, and am
> interested in feedback if opinions differ in the community.  Users who are
> willing to trade stability for newer software are welcome to run the
> development branch.
> 
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