[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:           |      Owner:  gk
  mikeperry              |     Status:  assigned
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  tbb-gitian, AffectsTails,
  Browser                |  TorBrowserTeam201510, GeorgKoppen201510
   Resolution:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by josephbisch):

 The other day I happened to start working on adding a Debian plugin to
 vmbuilder with the intention of giving people the option to use Debian
 guests with Gitian instead of Ubuntu guests. It seems like this plugin I
 started on is somewhat of relevance to the discussion in this issue.

 It is still very much a work in progress, but I thought you might like to
 have this on your radar. I was able to reproduce Sqlite for amd64 Linux
 successfully using a Debian Jessie KVM image with a modified version of
 gitian-builder (to change some package names and the username from ubuntu
 to debian, for example). I haven't published the gitian-builder changes,
 because they need some changes to work generally with both Ubuntu and
 Debian (e.g. there should probably be a command line option to select
 between Debian and Ubuntu). The only outstanding issue with my particular
 test situation is that the fetching of the package manifest doesn't work,
 so it has to be disabled currently for the build to proceed.

 See: https://github.com/josephbisch/vmbuilder.

 As you can see, I haven't put much effort yet into getting the particular
 differences between the Debian suites recorded in the Python files for
 each suite. I haven't talked to vmbuilder upstream yet about getting the
 Debian plugin integrated into vmbuilder proper, but I image they would
 want everything pretty much functional before they would merge it and
 there is a lot of stuff that isn't strictly necessary to get vmbuilder
 working with Gitian (like EC2 images). I am in discussions with the
 gitian-builder maintainer about adding Debian guest support to gitian-
 builder.

 There is also the issue of LXC Debian guests, which I haven't looked at
 yet, but gitian-builder just seems to use debootstrap, so it should be
 easy to get LXC Debian guests working.

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