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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by LeafStorm on Friday October 21, 2011 @08:21PM (#3142328)
Once, in Ubuntu 9.04, the cherrypy3 package was completely broken due to the upgrade to Python 2.6 [1]. (The version they were shipping at the time was 3.0.2, which was released in 2007.) Literally nothing worked. At all.

There was a new version of CherryPy that was Python 2.6 compatible, but they didn't upgrade to it. Instead, they had to go through the Stable Release Upgrade process, which took two months. Instead of upgrading the package from a version released in freaking 2007, they just added a patch that fixed the specific issue. And this was for software that was completely and totally broken. The chances that they would upgrade software that still worked fine but added some cool new features is just about zero.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cherrypy3/+bug/368...

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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by sciurus on Friday October 21, 2011 @11:01PM (#3142595)
As dimmuborgir already pointed out, they do upgrade Firefox. It's the exception of the rule and my impression is that there was much gnashing of teeth when Mozilla's update policy forced Canonical to start doing this.
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