[Labs-l] ubuntu 12

[Ryan Lane]

> I was quite disappointed when I saw the number of packages which
> ubuntu developers decided to deprecate just because it's hard to
> maintain them. Some of them are mozilla development packages such as
> xulrunner and others which lot of software, including mono depends on.
> For this reason I would like to suggest that we keep support for
> ubuntu 10.04 on labs for some longer time as it might be complicated
> to run some software on latest ubuntu.
>

We have no plans to drop lucid support any time soon, though we'll
likely switch the default to precise this week.

> I believe that ubuntu guys will soon understand how important some of
> the packages were, given to massive amount of help requests related to
> these packages and eventually restore the support for these.
>

I hope that's the case!

- Ryan