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[Thomi Richards <thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Ursula Junque <ursula.junque@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> So what solutions might be possible?


Sorry for the delay in getting to this.


To be honest, I don't like any of the proposed solutions so far - they all
feel like ugly hacks to me. If we're going to spend energy solving the
problem, let's make sure we solve it well :D

The root problem, AIUI is that while we can retrieve old images, the tools
we use to test those images aren't similarly retrievable.

There's several different conceptual angles we can try to solve this
problem:

1) We could try and change the Ubuntu archive so it keeps old versions
around forever. Almost certainly not going to happen.
2) We could try and change the phone images so they include the test tools.

#2 seems like a much more feasible goal to me. Has anyone looked at the
possibility of including the test dependencies in the phone image, but
disabling them when not in developer mode? I can anticipate several
concerns with this approach (using up valuable image space for one,
security for another), but I think we can address those concerns as they
arise.


Thoughts?


Cheers,

-- 
Thomi Richards
thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx