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Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2014, 03:24 +0000 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 02:50:04AM -0000, hamish wrote:
> > er, seriously? the kernel and firefox don't fall under things people
> > might possibly need LTS for?
> 
> You seem to have misunderstood what "LTS" means.  "LTS" does not mean "feel
> free to run this OS indefinitely, without upgrading, and expect to continue
> to receive support from the Ubuntu community".  The 10.04 LTS desktop
> packages - which *definitely* include firefox - were only supported until
> April 2013.  Anyone running a desktop environment on top of 10.04 is using
> software that has not been receiving critical security updates for over a
> year.
> 
> So no, you should not expect Ubuntu developers to go out of their way to
> enable you to continue running in a configuration which we do not endorse. 
> Any desktop-affecting regressions in the kernel security update are
> certainly unintentional, but if they only affect no-longer-supported desktop
> packages, it is not a critical regression.

Hmm. But you withdrew that kernel update for 10.04, i.e. the 10.04
update-manager does not show that new kernel version as an update
anymore.
And you continue to deliver critical security fixes to this unsupported
10.04 release for a while, right?
Well, then you should also try to fix these issues in due time or at
least give clear advice what sysadmins or experienced users can do get
things working again. 
Or stop updating the kernel for 10.04 all together!

> Sure; the solution is to upgrade to a supported version of the Ubuntu
> desktop packages, 12.04 LTS (or 14.04 LTS).
> 

...which will potentially break existing software which had been running
stably for a long time and had many happy users.
... and has a little blackmailing momentum in it, doesn't it?


-- 
thomas

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Title:
  Linux kernel 2.6.32-61 hangs gnome desktop on ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Just did a regular update and the latest kernel would boot, but when logging into my gnome desktop the mouse
  cursor shows a sandbox and is inaccessible. Had to go back to 2.6.32-60.

  Ubuntu 2.6.32-60.122-generic 2.6.32.61+drm33.26

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