For me, it always was more about infrastructure - successfully distributing a project when it's built with something less-than-mainstream is a problem, even if majority of install base is Ubuntu systems.
In this particular case, we would need to either build GHC from source for every user, or provide a binary compiled version for every Ubuntu version to keep providing source-level access to build system.
In this particular case, we would need to either build GHC from source for every user, or provide a binary compiled version for every Ubuntu version to keep providing source-level access to build system.