[Bug 2029089] Re: [SRU] Please backport UbuntuDistroInfo().get_all(result="object") to Xenial

[Brian Murray]

While testing this update as a part of the sponsorship process I noticed
that the eol-esm date for Ubuntu 16.04 is incorrect in the version of
ubuntu.csv included with distro-info-data for Ubuntu 16.04 so that will
likely need an update too.

(xenial-amd64)root at impulse:/home/bdmurray/tmp# grep xenial /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv
16.04 LTS,Xenial Xerus,xenial,2015-10-22,2016-04-21,2021-04-21,2021-04-21,2024-04-23

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Title:
  [SRU] Please backport UbuntuDistroInfo().get_all(result="object") to
  Xenial

Status in distro-info package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in distro-info source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I'm working on a update to software-properties in 16.04 to support the
  Ubuntu Pro tab. That work was already released to >=18.04, containing,
  for example, in commit "Show extended security maintenance status"[1]:

  ```python
  def current_distro():
      distro = aptsources.distro.get_distro()
      di = distro_info.UbuntuDistroInfo()
      releases = di.get_all(result="object")
      [...]
  ```

  That is functionality introduced in versions 0.15 and 0.16 of distro-
  info, for which Xenial didn't receive a backport yet.

  Test Plan
  ---------

  1. Install the update.
  2. Verify that running this in a shell prints a list of a correct list of EOL date (in YY-MM-DDDD format) and distribution name to the standard output:

  --->
  python3 <<EOF | sort -n
  import distro_info
  for d in distro_info.UbuntuDistroInfo().get_all(result="object"):
    print("%s %s" % (d.eol, d.codename))
  EOF
  <---

  Regression potential
  --------------------

  If something were wrong with this update, reverse dependencies could
  misidentify a given release, e.g. by incorrectly assessing a user
  release as supported or no longer supported, LTS or non-LTS etc..

  [1] https://git.launchpad.net/software-
  properties/commit/?h=ubuntu/bionic&id=c2bb1f8eeb70e2a9c4b40f326d21c287dec1baa8

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