I see two separate issues raised here. 1 - The fact that ubuntu promised to maintain some old-version of major apps longer than upstream authors. (Alan post #8) 2 - The fact that - unless related to security - applications will almost never get patched/corrected/updated
I don't think 1. is a problem in itself - in fact, it is rather great that they do. It just get more work on Ubuntu maintainer's shoulders. The very problem in 1. i see here is in fact related to 2., although from a sysadmin point of view : Nobody except heavy debian-fans assume that the OS "maintainance" topics also control third party apps. Most sysadmin would happily deploy an OS with Long Term Support (sounds great!) _unless_ they'd learn that Office will lag two or three years behind _by design_ (no MSOffice compatibility for you, no bugfixes in apps, even large ones !) I'd be happy to keep this bugreport for the (badly-worded) "tricking" part of the Web site, rather than for technical maintainance concerns. This also gives a single short location to point to for pre-deployment evaluations discussions. -- LTS Download Page has misleading content https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445460 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Backports Testing Team, which is subscribed to Hardy Backports. -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports