I was looking up the release and end-of-life info for Ubuntu in that other thread, and I came upon ubuntu-support-status. Surely my system is in tip-top shape, so I ran it…
Support status summary of 'yuzu':
You have 12 packages (0.5%) supported until May 2022 (5y)
You have 1830 packages (77.4%) supported until April 2021 (5y)
You have 266 packages (11.2%) supported until April 2019 (3y)
You have 12 packages (0.5%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 245 packages (10.4%) that are unsupported
Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more details
Whaaaaa? Eleven percent unsupported!? Let’s see:
No longer downloadable:
asciinema atom hugo:i386 libvpx1 mapcrafter mattermost
minecraft-installer nodejs simplenote slack-desktop vagrant
virtualbox-4.3
Unsupported:
arcanist bijiben bluez-hcidump bluez-tools chrome-gnome-shell cmus
cmus-plugin-ffmpeg comix composer cpp-4.9 csstidy dianara extlinux
filezilla filezilla-common firmware-b43-installer gajim gcc-4.9
gcc-4.9-base gdm geary gedit-plugins gir1.2-clutter-gst-2.0
gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gir1.2-git2-glib-1.0 gir1.2-gtop-2.0
gir1.2-gucharmap-2.90 gir1.2-zeitgeist-2.0 gstreamer0.10-alsa
gstreamer0.10-nice gstreamer1.0-clutter jsonlint keepassx
libalgorithm-c3-perl libarchive-extract-perl libasan1
libb-hooks-endofscope-perl libb-hooks-op-check-perl
libbareword-filehandles-perl libbytes-random-secure-perl
libclass-c3-perl libclass-c3-xs-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl
libclass-xsaccessor-perl libcloog-isl4 libcpan-changes-perl
libcpan-meta-perl libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl libcrypt-random-seed-perl
libdata-optlist-perl libdata-perl-perl libdata-section-perl
libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-globaldestruction-perl
libdevel-lexalias-perl libfarstream-0.1-0 libffi-dev libfilezilla0
libgcc-4.9-dev libgcc1-dbg libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
libgit2-glib-1.0-0 libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libgstreamer0.10-0
libid3-3.8.3v5 libimport-into-perl libindirect-perl libjs-excanvas
liblexical-sealrequirehints-perl liblog-message-perl
liblog-message-simple-perl libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common
libmath-random-isaac-perl libmath-random-isaac-xs-perl libmikmod3
libmodule-build-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl
libmodule-signature-perl libmoo-perl libmoox-handlesvia-perl
libmro-compat-perl libmultidimensional-perl
libnamespace-autoclean-perl libnamespace-clean-perl libnextcloudsync0
libntdb1 libopusfile0 libowncloudsync0 libpackage-constants-perl
libpadwalker-perl libpath-tiny-perl libphutil libpod-latex-perl
libpod-markdown-perl libpod-readme-perl libpugixml1v5 libqoauth1
libqscintilla2-12v5 libqscintilla2-l10n libqt5keychain0
libqtkeychain1 libroar2 librole-tiny-perl libsdl-mixer1.2
libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsoftware-license-perl
libstrictures-perl libstrophe0 libsub-exporter-perl
libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsub-identify-perl libtcltk-ruby
libterm-ui-perl libtext-soundex-perl libtext-template-perl
libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl libunicode-utf8-perl
libvariable-magic-perl libvisual-0.4-plugins linkchecker
linkchecker-gui links makepasswd meld mercurial mercurial-common
module-init-tools mtpfs musescore-soundfont-gm ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper-dkms nextcloud-client nextcloud-client-l10n
obex-data-server oneconf oneconf-common org-mode owncloud-client
owncloud-client-l10n pandoc pandoc-data php-cli-prompt
php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses php-json-schema
php-symfony-console php-symfony-filesystem php-symfony-finder
php-symfony-process polari profanity python-axolotl
python-axolotl-curve25519 python-characteristic
python-commandnotfound python-cups python-dbus-dev python-debtagshw
python-nbxmpp python-ntdb python-oneconf python-pip python-pip-whl
python-protobuf python-pyudev python-qscintilla2 python-qt4-sql
python-ubuntu-sso-client python-virtualenv python-wheel
python-zeitgeist python3-notify2 python3-oneconf python3-pip
python3-piston-mini-client python3-smbc python3-urwid
python3-virtualenv python3-wheel rhythmbox-mozilla ri rlwrap
ruby-bundler ruby-dev ruby-full ruby-molinillo
ruby-net-http-persistent ruby-thor ruby2.3-tcltk s3cmd
software-center software-center-aptdaemon-plugins solaar
solaar-gnome3 soundconverter systemd-shim tagtool timgm6mb-soundfont
tree ubuntu-gnome-wallpapers-utopic ubuntu-sso-client unetbootin
unetbootin-translations unrar urlscan virtualenv wesnoth wesnoth-1.12
wesnoth-1.12-aoi wesnoth-1.12-core wesnoth-1.12-data wesnoth-1.12-did
wesnoth-1.12-dm wesnoth-1.12-dw wesnoth-1.12-ei wesnoth-1.12-httt
wesnoth-1.12-l wesnoth-1.12-low wesnoth-1.12-music wesnoth-1.12-nr
wesnoth-1.12-sof wesnoth-1.12-sotbe wesnoth-1.12-thot
wesnoth-1.12-trow wesnoth-1.12-tsg wesnoth-1.12-ttb wesnoth-1.12-utbs
xmlcopyeditor xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident yarn zeitgeist
Okay, I get the no download apps; some of those are snaps, some are weirder stuff, or maybe PPAs. Kinda weird to be listed there, but whatevs.
But what the hell with the other stuff?! That is, like, a lot of packages! So what does that mean, exactly? I am not particularly worried, but I can’t find a lot of info about that. Figured I’d do a quick survey to see what percentage of everyone’s home system is “unsupported”.
Also, I am looking forward to 18.04! I already use GNOME, so I can pretentiously declare myself a victor!