![]() ![]() I’d be curious to hear what other Lubuntu Developers think about this. This seems especially true given that LibreOffice seems affected. I say this because while Lubuntu (like most other flavors) have shorter support time frames than standard Ubuntu, the Ubuntu community still supports the packages in the archive until the Ubuntu support timeframe ends. However, I think it would be a good idea for Ubuntu Developers to backport, not only for 18.04, but quite possibly for all other supported versions as I suspect it’s an ongoing problem. Given that our support for 18.04 ends in about 3 months, I’m concerned that dedicating our limited time to this task may not be a good use of our time. Given that, we have to prioritize some things over others. The Lubuntu team is a small one and we’ve almost always got more work to do than we have volunteers. I’ve been thinking about what to do with this and I’m really not sure. ![]() from -0ubuntu1 to -0ubuntu2), it’s going to be a relatively involved change to implement, the likelihood of pitfalls and conflicts is relatively high, and because of these, it’s going to require some extensive testing. Given that this is a major change in version (from 1.6 to 1.7) rather than simply a patch (e.g. It’s a bit of annoying paperwork, but the process is there to guard against the high likelihood of breaking something on an already released version of the OS. Generally, the way to deal with this is to go through the Stable Release Update process. Moving from # support to # development since this is really a question about backporting. ![]()
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