Author: David Leadbeater Date: To: Hugo Mills CC: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Xen virtualisation experience and advice
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:04:10PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 03:58:52PM +0000, Robert Leverington wrote:
> > 2009/1/29 Iain Lane <iain@???>:
> > > Long Term Support only refers to the support Canonical provides, which
> > > is more-or-less the packages in Main. It's all too easy to moan about
> > > the supposed lack of action without doing something about it.
> >
> > Then the LTS release is no more than a misleading badge to earn
> > Canonical a little more money? One more reason we shouldn't use Ubuntu
> > on servers, perhaps.
>
> Hardly. You get support on the things *in the main distribution*.
> That's not the case for the package in question, which is in Universe.
> This isn't enabled by default, and I believe that it's pretty clear
> about the support status of those packages when you do enable
> Universe.
>
> Stick to the supported packages, and you get a supported system...
Although to further confuse matters git-core is in main (therefore the
source package I supplied a patch for is git-core, which is in main,
but it affects a package in universe).
