Comment 3 for bug 1616454

Pulling in from our IRC discussion.

[08:25] <gaurangt> hi, is OpenStack mitaka release supported for xenial (16.04). It seems the documentation is little confusing here - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenStack/CloudArchive
[08:28] <gaurangt> the timeline here shows that the Mitaka release is the latest stable supported release for Xenial (16.04). But the below section "How to enable and Use" states that the mitaka cloud archive is only supported on trusty (14.04).
[08:29] <gaurangt> I also see a bug opened for this which is confirmed but not yet fixed.
[08:29] <gaurangt> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1616454
[08:29] <ubottu> Launchpad bug 1616454 in software-properties (Ubuntu) "Mitaka cloud-archive not supported on Xenial" [Undecided,Confirmed]

[08:51] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: 16.04 effectively "IS" Mitaka
[08:51] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: if you look at the drawing on the link you sent, you see that M is the last one on top of 14.04
[08:51] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: and then 16.04 LTS starts and it starts with an M right underneath
[08:51] <cpaelzer> with the same support time
[08:52] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: so the reason for "Mitaka cloud archive only supported on Trusty" is that Xenial does not need a "cloud archive" to have it
[08:52] <cpaelzer> it is just supported by being Xenial
[08:52] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: sorry - does that make any sense to you?

[08:53] <sarnold> thanks for the explanation cpaelzer -- it helps me anyway :)
[08:54] <cpaelzer> great, if gaurangt would ack I could maybe move that into the bug as explanation.
[08:58] <gaurangt> cpaelzer, thanks. Does that mean we need not add the cloud archive in xenial for mitaka and it can itself install the packages from standard xenial repo, right?
[08:59] <cpaelzer> gaurangt: exactly
[08:59] <gaurangt> cpaelzer, ok. That helps. Thanks :)