[ubuntu-x] Why is there no xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04-edge?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 04.05.2017 00:13, N. W. wrote:
>> Timo Aaltonen wrote: Because just to get it all built on xenial
>> takes time. Then after it's all good on a staging ppa it'll get
>> pushed to xenial-proposed. Once all the dozens of packages have
>> been reviewed and ACKed, it needs testing. It also takes time.
>> 
>> So no, I have zero interest in doing -edge copies of the X stack.
>> Feel free to test the staging ppa if you want. You'll know when
>> it's available. (hint: later this month)
> 
> Well, might as well make Ubuntu a rolling release then. Instead of
> "wasting" time to release a new graphics stack for 16.10/17.04/17.10
> and then backport it to 16.04, you could as well just have dropped
> 16.10/17.04/17.10 and only release it for 16.04.

It would still have to be released to the rolling release first, so I
don't see much changing here. Backporting takes effort, and I don't mean
pushing the packages but making them build on the LTS.


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