[tor-bugs] #15578 [Tor Browser]: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is EOL April 2015

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#15578: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is EOL April 2015
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     Reporter:  mikeperry   |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor         |    Version:
  Browser                   |   Keywords:  tbb-gitian, TorBrowserTeam201504
   Resolution:              |  Parent ID:
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Changes (by gk):

 * keywords:  gitian, TorBrowserTeam201504 => tbb-gitian,
               TorBrowserTeam201504
 * cc: gk (added)


Comment:

 So, I had been looking a bit at switching to Ubuntu 12.04 (#15551) as the
 new Debian stable is supposed to come out shortly.

 What the Bitcoin people are doing is basically what I did for #10125
 (getting Debian as a host OS going) + they use 64 bit Ubuntu Precise:
 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/contrib/gitian-descriptors
 /gitian-linux.yml. Here is what they did/do with respect to older glibc
 versions:
 https://git.thwg.org/wozz/bitcoin/commit/49a3352c1c05319c5fa22c4cb6819371d71de74d,
 https://git.thwg.org/wozz/bitcoin/commit/d5aab704908d6bea48bd7e7b36a3a49ece7d5c5f,
 https://git.thwg.org/wozz/bitcoin/commit/ffc6b678b9d12a8f963ab362b952fd6b7e6c4ec7.

 Sounds not like anything we could easily do. Switching to Debian guest VMs
 does not sound trivial either. I wonder how many user are really affected
 if we switched to Ubuntu Precise after Debian Jessy gets out. I'd inclined
 to argue Debian old-stable users (i.e. people using Wheezy then) should
 upgrade to stable as I can't imagine we want to start switching to old
 stable for building our Linux packages (not talking about the ones for OS
 X and Windows). Hmm...

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