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We debated this at length during the Thirdparty Library/Target Platforms SIG:

http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning/Thirdparty

We supported Maverick for Electric and it was a big waste of time because:

• Most people using non-LTS releases upgrade to the next non-LTS release
• It wasted a lot of developer time providing compatibility fixes
• non-LTS releases by Ubuntu generally have significant bugs that hurt integration
• it requires many more servers for us to build another distribution

Applying the same logic to Fuerte, plus with Precise (new LTS) around the corner, it would be a huge developer effort with little benefit.

You can still build Fuerte from source on Natty; you just don't get binary builds nor Natty-specific patches.