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

[Timo Aaltonen]

Hello Dan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted distro-info-data into cosmic-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-
info-data/0.38ubuntu0.2 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-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: distro-info-data (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic

** Changed in: distro-info (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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

Status in distro-info package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in distro-info-data package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in distro-info source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info-data source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info-data source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  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".

  [Test Case]
  1) Run ubuntu-distro-info --help and observer there is no mention of ESM

  With the version from -proposed there will be a switch to filter on
  ESM supported releases e.g. 'ubuntu-distro-info --supported-esm' and
  it'll be possible to show the number of days until the end of ESM
  ('ubuntu-distro-info --days=eol-esm --supported-esm -f). So the test
  case is really to make sure that those new filters work.

  [Regression Potential]
  If the relationship between the packages isn't right then they will not be upgraded together and we could end up in a situation where distro-info is unusable because it doesn't recognize the number of columns in ubuntu.csv. So try and only upgrade distro-info-data and if that works then there will be a regression which is bad!

  [Original Description or some portion of it]
  (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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