[Bug 1498059] Re: hwe-support-status should be included in newer releases

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 08:56:53AM -0000, Vlad Orlov wrote:
> Another issue. If I run update-manager when some updates are available,
> it will also offer to upgrade the stack to lts-xenial. If I run it when
> the system is fully updated, it won't offer that. It will only offer
> upgrading the whole system to Xubuntu 16.04.1.

That's the way the dialog is currently designed.  We could possibly
modify update-manager to inspect the 'release-check-time' Gio setting so
that if that setting is in the future we don't show the option to
upgrade the whole system and instead show upgrade HWE stack dialog.

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Title:
  hwe-support-status should be included in newer releases

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-manager source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in update-notifier source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in update-manager source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in update-notifier source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  Right now hwe-support-status is only in 12.04.  14.04 users might want
  that information for their release as well.

  Alternatively the functionality could be merged into ubuntu-support-
  status.

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