Re: The Kitty package in 19.10 is old
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 1:18 PM Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: > Hi, > > The current Kitty package in 19.10 is 0.14.3-1, released on 2019-07-29. > There have been 5 releases since then with numerous new features and bug > fixes, with latest release on 2019-12-21: > https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog.html > Hi, the Kitty in 19.10 (sounds odd) is on 14.3 which is the version that was released upstream at 29th July. Version 14.4 was released on 31st August which was after the Feature Freeze of 19.10 on 22nd of August. Is it possible to publish the updates to the 19.10 repos? > Not as easily as you might think. The next version of Ubuntu is 20.04 and already on Kitty 15.0 just missing the most recent release 15.1 which probably is due to most people being on christmas break. For 19.10 updates would have to follow the SRU policy [1] which means individual, testable, backportable bug fixes. Furthermore Kitty is "only" on universe [2] support so you'd also need to spend some effort yourself or find a volunteer driving this. [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates [2]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#The_Four_Main_Repositories Thanks in advance. > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: Update qemu
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 3:54 PM Daniel Llewellyn wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 15:23, Chaython Meredith > wrote: > >> Why has qemu not been updated? >> 4.2 out now. 4.1 since November. >> > Hi, we knew we wanted to go to 4.2 for 20.04 Extra merges of interim versions are quite some work without much gain and in addition 4.1 had some issues discussed in regard to block handling that I didn't want to trigger. Furthermore history has told us that merging qemu along the libvirt release that follows it (containing fixups as needed) is the best approach to not leave the current dev version of Ubuntu in a bad state. That would be libvirt 6.0 which isn't released yet and therefore holding things back a bit (plus the actual time to do the merge work and plenty of testing). > Stable releases of Ubuntu maintain packages in the repositories for > security-patches only; bumping versions beyond this is not a standard modus > operandi. To bump the versions in stable releases we follow the Stable > Release Updates documentation and rules: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. You will need to justify > why QEMU should be version bumped from 4.1 to 4.2 in the currently > available Ubuntu releases. If 4.2 is available in Debian Unstable then > Ubuntu 20.04 will include that version, or a later version if it arrives > before the repository sync, when it is released in April. > > Dan. > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss