Comment 8 for bug 260081

Just wanted to put in my two cents....virtually all netbooks that run Ubuntu run Ubuntu Netbook Remix that is based on hardy 8.4.

Apart from Ubuntu-8.10-mid-lpia that as far as i know is designed for hand held devices, there are no versions of Ubuntu that use ibex as a base.
Producers of hardware are certainly going to prefer using a LTS version of Ubuntu rather than something that in 18 months will no longer be supported.... even Canonical states:

"Canonical has collaborated with Intel and is working with a number of OEM's to deliver Ubuntu on netbooks in retail"
and
"In addition to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix there will be pre-installed remixes made available on manufacturer's machines. These will contain software that is not free and built for specific hardware profiles unique to the OEM"

as you can probably see building a repo for lpia packages under Hardy might not be such a bad idea