Maintaining the LTS version of fwts

[Keng-Yu Lin]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Colin Ian King
<colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've seen a couple of false positives on some tests that certification are
> generating on the dmi_decode tests and I was wondering if either we do
> another fwts release for Precise with just these fixes, or we upload the
> latest stable fwts to Precise so that the LTS gets all the new code -
> especially the ACPI 5.0 goodness that is landing.
>
> Any comments on this idea?
>
> Colin
>

I am rather happy to upload the whole to Precise rather than picking
up a few patches.
Normally I would agree that to picking up the necessary patches for
SRU makes more sens, but for the very LTS of Precise, it may not be
so.
Thinking of the 12.04.1 and 12.04.2, I definitely think that we should
upload the new fwts for them (I think that this is another thing we
should discuss, perhaps now is a good time).

With that in my mind, maintaining a separate version for Precise now
and have it only live before 12.04.1 or 12.04.2 seems a waste of human
power to me.

Though yes, reading the SRU policy, uploading the whole new version
may not really comply, yet fwts is a leaf pacakge without others
depending on it and fwts package is actually very isolated from
others. I think we can try to convince the SRU team, though I am not
really sure if it will get permitted. :-)

-kengyu