Comment 13 for bug 1470167

Hello Talat,

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Talat Batheesh
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Xenial should contain the updated mstflint.if not please care to be updated version.
> Debian contain version 3.7 an this version didn't support the ConnectX4 and ConnectX4LX devices.
> i have asked the maintainers to update it.

Debian SID (development version) already has latest version.

>
> we see this issue also with Trusty (14.04.4).
> The mstflint in Ubuntu 14.04.4 is so old, even ConnetX3 not supported.
> I think that updating all the package is a good idea.

Yep, that is why I sent an email to ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list
copying you. I'm pretty sure they will agree on open an exception to
what is defined in:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

And consider this as a SRU even being a bigger code merge.

>
> If there are no way to update the package unless the SRU, so how can
> costumer install this SRU?

Then we would go for "-backports" or a specific PPA for this. Lets
think about this if the SRU is "no go" from the discussion we started.
Also, after SRU being accepted I can create a temporary hotfix
containing the new version while the SRU is not finished (take some
weeks). Then, all users should use the temporary PPA and would be
automatically upgraded when the SRU is publicly available (from
-updates).

Cheers!