Comment 5 for bug 1589336

I would like to thank you for your work upstream, especially since my last comment was unnecessarily harsh. I believe you and I understand the dilemma between a stable distribution and out of date code. Many attempts have been made to address this, including rolling releases, SRU policies, flatpak, appimage, snap etc. The problem remains.

I understand your frustration when users complain that something is not working. I remember discussing the problem in IRC with the xpra community. I don't remember the details but I walked away with the strong feeling that they had no clue whatsoever about distros and packaging yet where attempting to package for hundreds of platforms, something that simply cannot be done correctly.

I hope the relation between Debian/Ubuntu on one hand and xpra can become more productive. If your idea of that is to backport large swathes of code or even "worse" to push back entire upstream releases to a stable Ubuntu release, I am sure you will be disappointed. Once a release is finalized only targeted bugfixes can be applied (-> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates)

I am a packager and I'm willing to do my part make Ubuntu packages in LTS releases better. Let's work together.