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ci: stable 1.0 branch should be supported back to bionic

Ideally we should have used the 16.04 xenial ubuntu release, because
that is truly the one that we supported with the specified build
dependencies, BUT building from git on that release isn't possible due
to unrelated autoreconf/m4 issues, so just default to building with
18.04, which is also still supported, unlike 16.04.

The build in xenial failed like this:
      $ NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
      autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
      autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
      autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
      /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:65: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
      autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
      aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
      autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
      $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtk-doc --disable-introspection
      /bin/bash: line 136: ./configure: No such file or directory

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