Comment 49 for bug 578045

Further to this discussion above regarding separating Application / User land applications from core Ubuntu components I would like to draw the maintainer of this bug report and colleagues tasked with working on it to solution Bodhi Linux currently uses.

http://www.bodhilinux.com/about_bodhi.php

Release Cycle
Evolution of Bodhi

Bodhi Linux is a "semi-rolling" release. This means that we follow the Ubuntu LTS release cycle for the core of our distribution, but in between these major release we backport software to our users so all of their software stays current. This means to stay with the latest release of Bodhi you only need to reinstall your system every two years, while still having current versions of your favorite applications. Bodhi releases are supported/get security updates for as long as the LTS base is supported by Ubuntu, which is five years.

Clearly Bodhi Linux is able to maintain compatibility with an Ubuntu LTS release but provide updated applications to the users of this application. Is it at all possible to take these updated packages from Bodhi and make them available as a possible upgrade path for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Perhaps someone at Canonical could test this idea?

The contact details for the developers of this distro can be found at the below URL :

http://www.bodhilinux.com/about_team.php

It would appear that the packager to speak with is :

Rbt "ylee" Wiley (mail address is linked from the URL above)

I hope this shows that an LTS release can have a 5 year support model and have up to date applications. With Fedora likely moving to this model and SuSE offering their tumbleweed repository isn't this an option that Canonical should at least consider?

http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

@ MPT : Is there any progress that you would be allowed to 'share' with us here regarding the progress of this bug? Or is there an avenue where those with an interest can help out with this?

Regards,

John