Glad to hear the official Backports have been resurrected. Someone new
to Ubuntu Studio and not aware of the ppa, is likely to follow the
standard Ubuntu instructions to enable backports. Installing from a ppa
is always a last resort for me.
I had to think a little bit about the decision not to backport to
non-LTS releases. If someone installs a backport on an LTS, then
upgrades their system to each intermediate release, they will only ever
be 6 months behind the latest upstream release until they are back on
the LTS (and re-enable backports).
If someone is more desperate than that, they can probably ask here on
the list for a special ppa, or we can provide a link to instructions to
do it for themselves?
Cheers,
Ross
PS: Sorry about the delay. I missed the email amongst all the automated
build emails! :-)
On 29.03.2023 17.04, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
Hi All,
As you all know, for the past several years, we've been maintaining a
backports PPA for our users to add to their systems to get updated
software. This has worked well for several reasons.
However, the Ubuntu Backporters team has been resurrected and is very
active. To give it a try, I backported studio-controls from Lunar to
22.04 LTS and was successful.
With that, I believe this should be the way we should backport
packages in the future, and perhaps even sunset the backports PPA. One
thing to keep in mind is that the official backports repository only
supports LTS releases, which means we would only be backporting only
to the latest supported LTS and not the regular releases.
Another approach could be backporting via the backports repo for the
LTS releases but keeping the backports PPA active for the regular
releases, but I'd rather not do this as it just feels sloppy and a
work-around to change process.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this. Thanks!
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Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
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