EOL announcements

[t u]

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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:32:48AM -0500, t u wrote:
>> what if:
>> a last upgrade would change the desktop background with an ugly-looking
>> message: "this release is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to a
>> later Ubuntu release to protect your system against security threads."
> 
> How would this update be distributed to users?  The nature of EOL is that no
> further updates are issued, and the obsolete release is removed from mirrors
> to make room for newer releases.
> 

I don't know. maybe leave only one package that will change the desktop
background on the servers?

maybe an ubuntu-artwork package specifically crafted to change any
occurrences of .gconf/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename to
/usr/share/ThisISObsolete.png file?

Again, as you see from my above paragraph, I don't know :)

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