Comment 3 for bug 1980180

Dear Robie,

Thank you for your consideration on this update and the rationale behind it. You make a valid point, Calamares has never received a Stable Release Update, and we have not made such a request before. If this were to be a typical application, we would agree with your assessment that this could be inappropriate for users. Here is why this is an exceptional case:
 - Calamares is simply a system installer. It gets automatically removed once the system is installed, and users typically will not update the system prior to installing it, usually after.
 - Lubuntu has a thorough test suite covering all typical ways a user would install a system, which Ubuntu Studio also uses. This would be exponentially above and beyond for manual testing on a normal SRU: https://phab.lubuntu.me/w/release-team/testing-checklist/
 - Both official flavors of Ubuntu that utilize this application in any official capacity are giving this a green light. We are willing and prepared to test this update thoroughly.

To answer the question of "why hasn't this been done before?," Calamares was a fresh addition to Lubuntu in 20.04 and changes were happening too quickly. We are confident that upstream has stabilized that branch and tests it enough that we should not run into any major, showstopper issues. We believe that this will be an upgrade in stability and long-term maintainability, not a downgrade with breaking changes that will negatively affect the user experience.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks again,
Simon Quigley and Erich Eickmeyer for the Lubuntu and Ubuntu Studio Teams, respectively