The relevant line from the meeting minutes is this one:
* Enable users to continuously track the development focus of Ubuntu as a
"rolling release" rather than having to explicitly upgrade
For: 0 Against: 3 Abstained: 0
But if you say that "With the incoming plans for the development release
to be a 'rolling release'" is not, in fact, the premise of this bug
report, I shall take you at your word, and mark this Won't Fix instead.
The reason is simple. It is a very bad idea to sell software that
doesn't work. Ubuntu relies on many upstream projects that do not
promise ABI compatibility. So whenever a new version of Ubuntu is
released, all commercial applications offered for the previous release
need testing to ensure they run on the new version. Currently this
requires person-weeks of work, and that will only increase as the number
of applications increases. They can't be tested by volunteers, because
that would require giving away free copies of applications when we don't
have the right to do that. So they need testing by Canonical staff. And
Canonical does not, and almost certainly never will, have the budget to
re-test all commercial applications after every ABI-affecting update to
the in-development version of Ubuntu.
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181084
Title:
Unable to install previously purchased software in current ubuntu
development release (saucy)
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
I have some purchased software that I am not able to install due to
Ubuntu Software Center considering that the development release (saucy
as I'm writing this), is not supported.
This means that advanced users that want to have saucy installed will
not be able to access that purchased software anymore. With the
incoming plans for the development release to be a "rolling release",
this would mean that I'd not be able to access that software unless I
go back to an "stable" release.
Given that the development release is considered of use by not the
regular users, but advanced ones that want to have the latest
software, I would consider the "release check" in the software center
to not be done in any case when in the latest development release.
As a side note, maybe with even a different bug report, this also
affects what new software I can install. As an example, I cannot find
the steam client listed for installation, when it appears without
problems in a computer with ubuntu precise.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-center 5.6.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-2.6-generic 3.9.2
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 17 13:30:56 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-25 (173 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2012-11-25 (172 days ago)
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