updates of enterprise edition

[Rejo Zenger]

++ 02/10/06 08:10 +0200 - Dennis Kaarsemaker:
>>  - There is every 6 months a new regular release, with 18 months of
>>    support. Examples of these releases are Warty, Hoary, Dapper and the
>>    upcoming Etch. When updating, you cannot skip releases, when updating
[...]
>Almost. It's Warty, Hoary, Breezy and Edgy. Dapper is an LTS release and
>Etch is current Debian testing.

Of course. 

>>  - If, for example, the fourth release after Dapper becomes the new
>>    "enterprise release", what happens to the universe and multiverse
>>    repositories of Dapper between Etch and the new enterprise release?
>>    Are they still being maintained, or should I expect "the community"
>>    to forget about the Dapper universe and multiverse repositories and
>>    to work only on those repositories of new regular releases?
>
>The future will show what happens.

So, basically, if I would choose to run only the "enterprise releases"
for stability (and for not having to upgrade every six months) in a
production environment, I possibly cannot rely on updates of the
additional packages in the universe repositories.

I know this is already stated on the Ubuntu site as those packages will
"comes with no guarantee of security fixes and support". Canonical will
not guarantee these updates. But, how likely "the community" actually
*will* forget about updates of universe packages of the most recent
enterprise release as soon as there is a new stable release?

If there is a fair chance it will forget, you would never run Ubuntu in
a production environment, unless you want to upgrade every six months.

-- 
Rejo Zenger <rejo at zenger.nl> https://rejo.zenger.nl
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