Comment 1 for bug 1718085

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 02:03:30AM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug by Jeremy Bicha (jbicha):
>
> Impact
> ======
> As announced when Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 was released, Ubuntu GNOME users will be upgraded to the regular Ubuntu desktop when they upgrade to the next stable release.
>
> This means that ubuntu-gnome-desktop will become a transitional package
> depending on ubuntu-desktop.
>
> For people who prefer a more upstream GNOME experience, the Ubuntu GNOME
> desktop would like to provide a new vanilla-gnome-desktop metapackage
> which is basically a continuation of what ubuntu-gnome-desktop used to
> be.
>
> We have no intention of making iso's for this vanilla GNOME.
>
> So it's time to stop building the ubuntu-gnome daily ISOs now too.
>
> Links
> =====
> https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-17-04-released/
>

Sure, as far as the release team is concerned.

Please follow up with the cdimage team regarding dropping Ubuntu GNOME
ISOs. You'll probably want to edit livecd-rootfs and lp:ubuntu-cdimage
at least, no doubt others (the ISO tracker) too. The ubuntu-release ML
is as good a place as any for that.

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Iain Lane [ <email address hidden> ]
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