Comment 29 for bug 578045

Hi Michael,

This is a great start but will this mean that more applications are going to be back ported in the future? If the selection is still very small then I don't see much of a benefit? If the back ports can be synced against the newest versions of software in the future releases of Ubuntu e.g. 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 etc then that will be great. Is there a policy for this? Is there a list of the applications that are on the back port list? I guess the default Office suite and browser / productivity software will be there? Are you aiming at a percentage of software that can will back ported? E.g. 20%, 30% of software in main? Will the back ports be maintained by Canonical or will this be a community effort? Will this be pushed as a feature? This is a good news but the original bug is still valid that installing and maintaining up to date FOSS software is still easier on Windows and OSX.

Thank you for your time and answers.

Best regards,

John