Comment 13 for bug 1327014

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.

> and not all servers are strictly going to be headless.

I can see that this is true, but that in no way changes our support policy
for such things.

> Staying with the old+working kernel package long term is no solution
> either.

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

> but if the core of the server edition is not actually going to be
> supported

"firefox" is not part of the core of the server edition. If you can present
a case wherein a supported server package is affected by this bug, then this
would be a higher priority issue.

For instance, there is a new linux kernel package in lucid-proposed,
2.6.32-62.125, which purports to fix a regression identified in the previous
security update. You might check if this update fixes your issue as well -
perhaps it's the same issue.

But your configuration is still unsupported and you should upgrade to a
currently-supported desktop release.