[Bug 1808038] Re: ubuntu-distro-info should include information about ESM status

[Dan Watkins]

For clarity, I absolutely agree that this is a different type of
support, and therefore would need to be a distinct field in the data
(and perhaps would need to be just a boolean, as I don't believe
Canonical has committed to a particular timeframe for ESM for precise,
trusty or xenial?).  It would also need to be exposed differently via
`ubuntu-distro-info`.

Requiring access to the ESM archives to find out this information would
be (a) annoying from an implementation point of view, as no other image
/release-level support status information currently requires any
interaction with the archives, and (b) leads to a chicken/egg problem
(for example, if someone wants to write software which checks if ESM is
available for their system before it gets configured).

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Title:
  ubuntu-distro-info should include information about ESM status

Status in distro-info package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  ubuntu-distro-info is an important source of information about the
  current support state of the various Ubuntu releases.  Currently,
  however, it provides no information about the status of Extended
  Security Maintenance for Ubuntu releases, which is an important aspect
  of Ubuntu "support".

  (If we already had concrete ESM information in this package, it could
  have served to clear up the recent confusion about bionic's "10 years
  of support".)

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