[Bug 1822340] Re: [UIFe] motd messaging rewrite

[Robie Basak]

> We're only SRUing this to trusty, as xenial and bionic will have some
more changes, and it would just be a waste of time to SRU the trusty one
there.

For the record, I think this is acceptable over regular SRU policy
because the nature of this update _is_ to provide something special in
Trusty as it's going into ESM. So normal concerns over users regressing
when they release upgrade do not apply to this case. I see that there's
general "umbrella" code added to Disco/Eoan already for the long term
case.

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Title:
  [UIFe] motd messaging rewrite

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Changes to the motd and update counting to count ESM security upgrades as security upgrades, and show some information about ESM upgrades.

  [Test case]
  The motd output has unit tests for the various combinations, passing counts of various upgrade types. That said, the actual counting might be wrong.

  The regression potential is higher in releases with ESM, as they'll
  get more messages and have more stuff that could go wrong.

  [Regression potential]
  Potentially wrong reporting, lost translations.

  [disco UIFe]
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2019-April/007534.html
  ubuntu-doc held for moderation

  [SRU]
  We're only SRUing this to trusty, as xenial and bionic will have some more changes, and it would just be a waste of time to SRU the trusty one there.

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