[Bug 1980368] Re: [SRU] rename ESM services on messages delivered to MOTD

[Robie Basak]

It was pointed out that this SRU proposes to change translatable
strings, and we found that some of these strings are indeed translated
in language packs. Therefore, this will regress translations in that
where the message has changed and was previously translated, the
translation will fall back to "C" (here, that means English). From a
quick glance, this is most languages. A quick inaccurate look at Jammy
suggests: "af ast bn ca cs cy da de el en_AU en_CA en_GB es fi fr gl hr
id it mnw my nl pl pt ru sv uk uz zh_CN".

As far as I know, there is no SRU policy about translations. Affecting
translated strings in SRUs is pretty rare because normal bugfixes don't
need them to be changed. I wanted to get an ack from another SRU team
member, but they are unavailable right now, and we need to land this now
in order to not compromise time for testing prior to our deadline.

As far as I can tell though, this translation regression would have to
happen anyway - we can't get translation contributions until this is
widely out, and once translations are updated, a subsequent language
pack update will restore them again.

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Title:
  [SRU]  rename ESM services on messages delivered to MOTD

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in update-notifier source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in update-notifier source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in update-notifier source package in Impish:
  Won't Fix
Status in update-notifier source package in Jammy:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  There is an update on how the ESM services are named on the Ubuntu Advantage Client (UA) project.
  We need to change those names on update-notifier as well to provide an unified user experience regarding the ESM services.

  We are changing:

  UA Infra: ESM -> ESM Infra
  UA Apps: ESM -> ESM Apps
  UA Infra: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) ->  Expanded Security Maintenance for Infrastructure
  UA Apps: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) ->  Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications

  [Test Case]
  Launch a Xenial machine with the update-notifier package with the new changes and verify that MOTD
  now deliver the modified messages we expect.

  [Regression Potential]
  We are just providing message changes, so the regression potential is really low. User might notice the changes, but they are not that different from the original ones.

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