[Bug 1873362] Re: [FFe] remove ubuntu-support-status as its a confusing mess

[Stéphane Graber]

** Summary changed:

- remove ubuntu-support-status as its a confusing mess
+ [FFe] remove ubuntu-support-status as its a confusing mess

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Title:
  [FFe] remove ubuntu-support-status as its a confusing mess

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  New
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  update-manager-core includes a script called ubuntu-support-status
  which sells itself as a tool to "Show supported [and unsupported]
  packages on this machine". However, the term supported is not defined
  and can mean a variety of things (technical support, regular updates,
  security updates) to different people. Additionally, the output is
  actually confusing as zsync (from universe) is included as unsupported
  while python2.7 (also from universe) is shown as supported for 3
  years. Additionally, upower (from main) is shown as supported for 3
  years. So in addition to the term being confusing why packages are in
  one category or another is also confusing. Finally, part of the reason
  for the confusing mix of support periods is that flavors can have
  their own "supported" time frame and they have not been contacted
  about what that support time frame should be.

  Subsequently, there is a merge proposal to stop generating the
  Supported field for Ubuntu 20.04.

  https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/ubuntu-archive-publishing/no-more-
  supported/+merge/382444

  As there will be no Supported information in packages anymore ubuntu-
  support-status will be unusable and should be removed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: update-manager 1:20.04.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu26
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Thu Apr 16 14:35:28 2020
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'647'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-count' b'84'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1586972193'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'701'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (615 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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