Eventually, infrastructure will transition from using Trusty to Xenial, when Trusty reaches EOL. To be prepared, we should add a Xenial builder now to catch any regressions.
Also, it would allow us to get better test coverage (eg. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=736452#c28) for systems with newer libraries/kernels.
Comment 1 by thomasanderson@chromium.org
, Nov 30 2017