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

[Mathew Hodson]

** Description changed:

  [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".
+ 
+ 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
+ 
+ 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".)
+ 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!
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+ 
+ 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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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 Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info-data source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in distro-info-data 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!

  [Other Info]

  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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