[Bug 1402706] Re: More explicit wording needed for HWE updates

[Chris Johnston]

Something along those lines sounds good, however, we need to be able to
provide them a way to find out more information about that. The command
line says something along the lines of:

Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is no longer supported
since 2014-08-07.  Security updates for critical parts (kernel
and graphics stack) of your system are no longer available.

For more information, please see:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL

There is a graphics stack installed on this system. An upgrade to a 
supported (or longer supported) configuration will become available
on 2014-07-16 and can be invoked by running 'update-manager' in the
Dash.


So maybe if we said something like "New important security and hardware support update" and then provided a link to "More info" which linked to the EOL page?

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Title:
  More explicit wording needed for HWE updates

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in update-manager source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  In Precise after new HWE kernel was released the following message was displayed to the user:
  "New hardware support is available [Install]".

  This is perfectly correct, but I have received some complaints from
  sysadmins that this is a little bit misleading to end users.

  The current approach leaves users with false sense of support and
  security - since they will not receive any (includnig *security*)
  kernel patches despite the fact that they have installed a LTS
  release.

  In their opinion it should be emphasized that a new HWE kernel is
  required to prolong the LTS-nature of the installed system (since most
  of the HWE kernels will have up to a couple months of support).

  So, if the current kernel is close to EOL and new HWE kernel is
  available the message should clearly recommend upgrading the kernel to
  maintain full system support.

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