UPDATE: Announcement from www.kubuntu.de

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John Ruschmeyer schrieb:
> Karl Goetz wrote:
>> Jan Moren wrote:
>>  
>>> tis 2006-04-11 klockan 14:08 +0200 skrev Mirjam Wäckerlin:
>>>    
>>>> ISO-Updates
>>>> Is there any problem to integrate patches and security updates into
>>>> the install- and live-iso's and to provide updates of the iso's after
>>>> 3 months? Bugs do happen.
>>>>       
>>> And are addressed in the next six-month release.
>>>
>>> You are saying, in essence, that we should have a three-month
>>> stable-unstable release cycle. That does not give many days of actual
>>> development in between packaging sycles.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> no, he said that the updates gained from archive.ubuntu.com in
>> (K?)ubuntu-updates and (K?)ubuntu-security should be merged into the cd
>> after a certain amount of time (3 months).
>> While i agree with the idea in principal it means updating the gpg keys
>> and changing packages for the 'stable' branch. So i have to disagree
>> with it when the 18 month lifetime is taken into consideration
>>   
> I agree in principle also, but I'm not sure who would really benefit
> from a mid-cycle update of the install and live isos.
> 
> Since, the Ubuntu policy is generally not to update package versions
> within a release (hence no official Firefox 1.5 for breezy), then the
> only updates would be bug fixes and security patches.  The installer
> picks those up automatically at installation, unless you are installing
> without a net connection. Conversely, if you don't have a net
> connection, then the security fixes probably aren't as important.

In developed countries it is probably true but I have to disagree
regarding developing countries: I get managed to download an Ubuntu iso
image in a less developed country. It needed a few days because only
slow satellite connections where available. It took more time to
download the current security updates additionally. Afterwards I
installed Ubuntu on several PCs which where connected to the Internet.
Because of slow connection I copied and installed the security updates
manually which took too much time! (To set up a local apt
repository/cache server could be a solution for big organisations but
was not worth the effort in my case)

Thus the possibility to download up-to-date Ubuntu images would be very
usefull for developing countries with slow Internet connections! Even
some inofficial images would be very usefull.