[Bug 1687105] Re: ubuntu-support-status will report wrong dates for ESM packages

[Adam Conrad]

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted update-manager into precise-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-
manager/1:0.156.14.22 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  ubuntu-support-status will report wrong dates for ESM packages

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in update-manager source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  ubuntu-support-status in update-manager-core has reasonably accurate
  information about the support lifetime of packages in 12.04, but it
  does not know about ESM.  Users of this command will be told that all
  of their packages are unsupported starting end of this month,
  regardless of whether they have ESM enabled on the system.

  I think ideally we would:
  - have a list available, shipped with update-manager-core, of all the packages supported in the ESM archive
  - if the ESM archive is enabled on the system, use this source of information about the extended support length
  - if the ESM archive is not enabled on the system, direct the users toward information about enabling ESM

  Though the last part is a bit chicken and egg at this point, since the
  precise archive is closing so the only place we have to publish the
  updated update-manager-core package is in the ESM archive itself.

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