Fai on Ubuntu 9.10 status?

[Per Foreby]

Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:47:51 +0200, Per Foreby <perf at ddg.lth.se> said:
> 
>     > Our setup depends heavily on softupdate, and we're in the process of
>     > switching from Debian to Ubuntu on desktop, so this sounds like bad news.
> I can only care about FAI in Debian. In the past Ubuntu often changed
> things that broke FAI. So I myself will not switch to Ubuntu. But you could
> make a lot of people happy by helping care about the FAI packages in
> Ubuntu.

I wish we didn't have to make the switch to Ubuntu, but it's the same
story as elsewhere: Debian stable is too far behind for our users, and
Ubuntu is a better choice than sid from a maintenance POV.

I will of course continue to contribute within my limited time, but I'm
puzzled by the FAI status in Ubuntu.

Since Ubuntu is basically a sid snapshot, one might think that it would
be trivial to support fai on Ubuntu. Lots of schools, companies and even
governments use Ubuntu, so there should be plenty of need for a good
deployment tool, and FAI happens to be the best one I know of.

/Per