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Please send replies to ubuntu-release. Otto, thanks for taking the time to email us. I am not on the Ubuntu Release Team but here are my thoughts. I don't like your proposal to drop the epoch. That will cause everyone already using Ubuntu 18.04 (which is now in Beta) to have a version of mariabdb installed that will not get any updates (for security or bug fixes). Ubuntu isn't that much different than Debian here. You can't really remove the epoch in Debian and I don't see how you can reasonably remove it from Ubuntu either. It feels to me like it might be better to move Ubuntu 18.04 to 10.2 and completely remove the 10.1 packages. Do you know when 10.3 is expected to be officially "stable"? How risky is it for Ubuntu 18.04 to switch to the current 10.3 RC [1] instead of 10.1 or 10.2? How long would it take to get 10.2 or 10.3 ready for Ubuntu? The support lifecycle for either 10.2 or 10.3 look a lot better than 10.1 for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. [2] [1] https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/+releases/ [2] https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/ And one more link for reference: https://bugs.debian.org/891641 Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
