The problem ubuntu/canonical needs to address

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 6/4/2011 3:30 AM, arif tuhin wrote:
> Actually i have one Xen VM which was upgraded from hardy to Lucid and
> refused startX :). Although it was minor issue , solved after applying a
> patch to xorg libraries.

> Another problem regarding online upgrade which is not ubuntu's fault is
> many mirrors stays behind/not properly synced the master mirror. Some
> times it gives a false scenario when someone is upgrading. You may
> think you are updated and ready to jump distribution, but in practice
> couple of your packages will surely break. It happened to me once. My
> local mirror was shipping new iso, but the erlier version packages were
> behind by two weeks. After i upgraded it broke gnome panel and compiz.
> After some tweaking it was ok.

You can't blame Ubuntu for a Xen issue and that is a classic *Xen*
issue.  Regardless of whether or not you would like it to be it's not
Ubuntu's fault and never will be.  It also depends on who and how your
hypervisor is setup and how your images are setup too.

If a package is two weeks out of date on a mirror you need to contact
#ubuntu-mirrors on irc.freenode.net or email mirrors at ubuntu.com and let
them know. If I remember right, mirrors are asked to update every 6
hours, but 2 weeks is unacceptable by even the worst sysadmins standards
and I'm sure the mirror admins will not put up with that.