Comment 3 for bug 939461

I think this may be partially due to the stage of the development cycle we're in. (I believe commercial applications have normally been added to the "partner" repository upon reaching Beta to avoid potential rework due to possible ABI changes.)

I strongly agree with the concept of doing all we can to seemlessly ensure application continuity for users. I think the expected/desired behavior would be that any commercial applications the user had with a specific version of Ubuntu would still be available to them on the successor version of Ubuntu, once they'd upgraded the underlying operating system, without the need for the user to take further action. Ideally this would happen somewhat automatically and transparently without users having to re-enable sources for specific applications. (This obviously depends on the application being compatible with the successor version of Ubuntu, which may not always be the case, but in practice they usually seem to be.)