Comment 65 for bug 587186

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote : Re: [Bug 587186] Re: libc6 upgrade fails: illegal instruction

On 14.10.2010 23:23, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Oloryn said:
>> I'm showing my ignorance of installation internals I guess, but will a
>> libc6 preinst script that prevents an upgrade cause upgrade-manager to
>> roll everything back to the previous release?
>
> Given that Ubuntu hasn't made a single release since 7.04 that hasn't
> had major regressions on at least one of the PCs in my house (as of
> 10.10, there is this bug, as well as broken wireless on my laptop that
> previously worked in 10.04) every release cycle, what makes you think
> they would be smart enough to do that?
>
> The quality control in Ubuntu is a joke. It really is.

everybody should read the release notes before upgrading. See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes

   "With 10.10 we have also dropped support for i586 and lower
    processors, as well as i686 processors without cmov support."

The notice is there. This is expected behaviour, not a regression.