Ubuntu shipped laptop-mode in the "main" component (aka the official, supported component) in
Warty, Hoary, and Breezy. That's three times, not "never" as you say.
Posted Nov 13, 2007 16:02 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112)
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You're right, I didn't look back that far (over two years now). That laptop-mode is an
Ubuntu-specific tool which is long obsolete and will be removed from universe as well.
In any case, it was removed from main when laptop-mode-tools was added (in 6.06), so it
remains true that Ubuntu did not in fact ship them both.