Comment 7 for bug 578045
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| Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) wrote | #7 |
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This is not a bug, this is the part of the Ubuntu way of handling updates to applications. The default for users is that their experience does not change unless and until they upgrade to a new release. This is very intentional and this stability is part of the core value proposition for users.
In the case where a user would like a more up to date package on their system then the one that is offered in the repositories for that version, these users have some options, including creating or finding a PPA, or using backports.
So, this is not a bug, but rather a proposal to dramatically realign some core principles about how we develop software. It's a good and useful discussion to have, but not in a bug report. Blueprints, the ubuntu-devel mailing list and other forums would be more fruitful for such a discussion. Therefore, I am setting this bug to "opinion".