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About strong changes which are need in Ubuntu!

Asked by girts

Please update usb_modeswitch, networkmanager, modemmanager to latest packages!!
Please stop using out of date packages in Gnome where stil is in repository 3.8; 3.10; 3.12 Gnome applications. In Ubuntu 15.04 there are lots of very old versions of packages.
Please stop using in Ubuntu beta pre-realese packages in releases!

Old versions are no more in development and can contain security issues and bugs and together this mix with latest an beta version packages in distribution can create bugs and crashes. By modifying code of original packages GNOME,... can make bugs and crashes too.

Canonical please open eyes. Friends change please strategy.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. If the security and bug fixes you highlight are significant then the package will be updated sooner. If there are no huge reasons to upgrade a package then it will be left (especially in the Last releases). Ubuntu is not a rolling release and stability of the OS is champion over getting the latest package versions.

If you want to have the latest version of all packages then install something like Debian unstable but you will not get the stability afforded in Ubuntu due to the way updates are pushed. Try to remember the target audience of Ubuntu.

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girts (girtsz) said : 		#2

Sorry, this is not an answer. 100% sure bug count will become bigger and bigger day by day and Ubuntu will become big trash due this development model. There is need more control. Original packages usage and compilation in Ubuntu can make possibility better and putting them together you will get less bug distribution and more stable.

Sorry Canonical but this reality. Don't live in matrix open eyes!

Kind Regards!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Considering it has used this model since 2004 I would say it was fine. Again, if you don't like Ubuntu and how it releases packages then go for a rolling release distribution, but it won't be as solid as Ubuntu or other distributions using a staged release method.. But hey you know better than the team responsible for developing the most popular Linux based desktop distribution right... Yeah

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girts (girtsz) said : 		#4

Yes, I see right road. Mark must read this question too and one day I can discuss with him.

Can we put in discussion this question with Mark community and developers?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#5

It seems to me that you are challenging Ubuntu's strategy of having timed releases and NOT being a rolling release system.
I doubt that the question/answer is the right place for such discussion.

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