I did not have anything important on this laptop so I did an upgrade from ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10.  The upgrade seemed to work just fine although in the process it brought up a window which made me wonder a bit if I had anything to be concerned about.  The contents follow:
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Ubuntu 6.10 dropped support of these apps<br><br>bluez-pcmcia-support<br>console-common<br>
console-data<br>cupsys-driver-gimpprint<br>doc-debian<br>foomatic-db-gimp-print<br>foomatic-db-gutenprint<br>gok<br>gtk2-engines-clearlooks<br>gtk2-engines-crux<br>gtk2-engines-highcontrast<br>gtk2-engines-industrial<br>gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue
<br>gtk2-engines-mist<br>gtk2-engines-pixbuf<br>gtk2-engines-redmond95<br>gtk2-engines-smooth<br>gtk2-engines-thinice<br>ijsgimpprint<br>ijsgutenprint<br>irssi-text<br>libcompfaceg1<br>libdvdnav4<br>libdvdread3<br>libgnujaxp-java
<br>libgnujaxp-jni<br>libgnutls12<br>libnetcdf3<br>libreiserfs0.3-0<br>libtasn1-2<br>libunicode-string-perl<br>pcmcia-cs<br>python-gadfly<br>python-htmltmpl<br>python-kjbuckets<br>python-netcdf<br>python-numeric-ext<br>python-parted
<br>python-pgsql<br>python-soappy<br>python-stats<br>python-syck<br></blockquote><br>Any comments?<br><br>-- <br>Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;- Dr. Seuss