> I am not sure what problem you are trying to fix. I want the version of Ubuntu to actually mean what version of essential software I should expect.
I want "14.04.4 LTS" to mean the exact same thing on the download page as it does in /etc/lsb-release. > First of all point releases are only installation media, and not the > packages archive. But we do bump the version string in the package archive. > > We do provide installation media for past point releases, each one > with different HWE packs on them. These are all available for download > and installation from. > > In general, we do not move people to next HWE stack, it's a manual > action until upgrade to next LTS. And from packages archive point of > view, they are all supported and available from the > archive.ubuntu.com. > > We do not provide snapshot archives for point releases, thus it is > simply a matter off "did you dist-upgrade to everything that's > available in -security & -updates", regardless of the HWE stack one is > running. > > All stacks are supported, and in theory, from any stack one should be > able to dist-upgrade to the next LTS and get the new stock kernel. I > do not believe we roll people from one HWE to the next within an LTS > release, so it is simply a mater of which installation media was used, > and/or which HWE packs one chose to install afterwords. > > For trusty, the intermediate hwe stacks will go out of support, after > 16.04.1 is released and thus LTS -> LTS upgrades enabled, and the > expectation there is for people to upgrade to 16.04.1, and most people > will / do. > > -- > Regards, > > Dimitri. -- 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
