Will hoary backports continue till its end of support?

[topcop]

I'd really like this to be the case if its possible!
I mean it doesn't hurt adding smallish/not tightly coupled programs like OpenOffice2, gaim, xchat, firefox, thunderbird does it?
please someone consider :-)
A lot of people have highly configured systems and they don't want to dist-upgrade just to get latest firefox or openoffice2

[earobinson]

this would be my guess but Im not sure

[jdong]

I'd really like this to be the case if its possible!
I mean it doesn't hurt adding smallish/not tightly coupled programs like OpenOffice2, gaim, xchat, firefox, thunderbird does it?
please someone consider :-)
A lot of people have highly configured systems and they don't want to dist-upgrade just to get latest firefox or openoffice2

We will try to do it if at all possible, but understand that as time moves on, it becomes harder and harder to support older systems because of the rapid pace of development.


Of the ones you mentioned, most would backport OK except for Openoffice 2.0, which needs a GCC 4.0 foundation not present in Hoary. However, there are other ways to run OOo2 under Hoary, though some of them are really ugly.


We'd love to support every Ubuntu-supported distro version, but sadly that can't always be done.