Suggestion: Add official support for Ubuntu Bionic and Focal

[mignaulo]

Hello, thank you for this software. We use it for submit our metrics to our Grafana Cloud instance.

Our stack is Ubuntu-based and to keep receiving security updates, we update to active LTS versions regularly.
Currently the two active LTS versions are Ubuntu bionic (18.04) and focal (20.04)

You only provide packages for Ubuntu trusty (14.04) and xenial (16.04), both of which are out of the normal support period at this point. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

It might make sense to start providing packages for newer releases of Ubuntu? For now, we are simply running the xenial binaries on bionic, without any issues. Thank you!

[Dieterbe]

FWIW this led me to open jordansissel/fpm#1826

[hcgrove]

Packages for Debian Bullseye would also be nice. (The buster package installs fine, but it is a bit of work)

In the other end, packages for Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Trusty and Ubuntu Xenial can probably be dropped, even long term support for those distributions have ended.

[daks]

I'm preparing a migration from Debian 9 to Debian 11, and packages are not available right now for Bullseye (no apt repository). We will use buster repository but availability for Bullseye directly would be nice 👍

[Dieterbe]

anyone interested in contributing these updates to the package building scripts?

[daks]

anyone interested in contributing these updates to the package building scripts?

Where can we find those to have a first look at it?

[Dieterbe]

the current package build commands are in https://github.com/grafana/carbon-relay-ng/blob/master/Makefile

[kmfort]

Any word on an official Ubuntu Focal release?