[DC LoCo] LTS Server Support Issue

[Ken Stailey]

Hi,

We got rid of our last Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server even with the support still purportedly in place until 2013.

Just before we did I remembered that Kees Cook had written a Python script for Dapper to display the names of any unsupported packages.  I started to port it to Hardy but found some interesting stumbling blocks with APT.

One of the most interesting things is the webkit package in APT.  The catalog is funny or something.

$ lsb_release -d
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS

No binary package named webkit:

$ sudo apt-get install webkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package webkit

However there's a source package named webkit:

$ apt-get source webkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 12.2MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe webkit 0~svn29752-1 (dsc) [869B]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe webkit 0~svn29752-1 (tar) [12.2MB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe webkit 0~svn29752-1 (diff) [13.7kB]
Fetched 12.2MB in 4s (2737kB/s)
gpg: Signature made Fri 25 Jan 2008 05:48:52 PM EST using DSA key ID 54FD2A58
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: extracting webkit in webkit-0~svn29752
dpkg-source: unpacking webkit_0~svn29752.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./webkit_0~svn29752-1.diff.gz

Any idea why?

More about this here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1757697

Thanks,
Ken