On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:16:22AM +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> The deployment of LAVA using Ubuntu packages is deprecated in favor of the
> dedicated LAVA deployment tool [1]. LAVA installation is tested and supported
> on Ubuntu host from version 10.10 to 11.10 (Maverick to Oneiric) [2].
>
> From 11.12 cycle, the following conditions will be applied:
> * Linaro Validation PPA [3] won't be updated with latest LAVA releases.
> * Bugs affecting packages won't be fixed.
>
> We plan to provide LAVA deployment tool from Linaro Validation PPA.
>
> [1] http://launchpad.net/lava-deployment-tool
> [2] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) isn't supported due to a bug with upstart
> [3] http://launchpad.net/~linaro-validation/+archive/ppa
>

Does this affect all LAVA packages (eg lava-test, lava-dashboard-tool),
or just the ones pertaining to the server?

I would hope that client side tools that have reached a certain degree of
maturity (read: you don't need to SRU stuff to ubuntu released version
regularly due to changes on server side) would be still be made available in
packaging form.