Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 29 November 2013 10:16, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:
On 28/11/13 10:52, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lucid desktop packages are EOL'd. You should be planning an upgrade path.
At least there's 5-year lifetimes for the desktop LTS releases.
Actually no. As my script hopefully shows, most of your desktop packages only receive 18mo support. My impression is that only packages on the GUI install CD count are marked as Support: 3y and only the packages on the server install CD are marked as Support: 5y.
Lucid was 10.04, and 3y desktop support; Precise (12.04) came with 5y desktop support.
Note OP was running 10.04.
Would be interesting to hear what the results of your script are on the 12.04 release?
Note my script only reports on installed packages. You can use dctrl-tools queries to generate other reports. Work's migrating to Debian because we're sick of Canonical's NIH-happy rabid beaver model, so I don't really care anymore. When I wrote my original post on this thread, quacking turned up references to an in-Ubuntu tool to test this stuff, you might have luck with that. I didn't keep a bookmark, sorry. (Actually there was a bzr repo on launchpad for doing a similar job on 8.04, but I forget where it lives.)