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

[Brian Murray]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 08:41:32AM -0000, Vlad Orlov wrote:
> However, the tool seems to ignore multiarch.
> I have some 32-bit packages from lts-wily stack installed here (the system is 64-bit Xubuntu 14.04):
> 
> $ aptitude search ~ilts-wily | grep i386
> i A libegl1-mesa-lts-wily:i386      - free implementation of the EGL API -- runt
> i A libgbm1-lts-wily:i386           - generic buffer management API -- runtime  
> i A libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-wily:i386   - free implementation of the OpenGL API -- D
> 
> But they're not shown in the unsupported packages list:
> 
> $ hwe-support-status --show-all-unsupported
> xserver-xorg-video-mga-lts-wily libgles1-mesa-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-qxl-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse-lts-wily xserver-xorg-input-mouse-lts-wily 
> linux-image-extra-4.2.0-42-generic xserver-xorg-video-savage-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-vmware-lts-wily linux-image-generic-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom-lts-wily xserver-xorg-input-evdev-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-sisusb-lts-wily linux-generic-lts-wily 
> libgbm1-lts-wily xserver-xorg-core-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-wily 
> libgbm1-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-wily virtualbox-guest-x11-lts-wily 
> libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-wily linux-image-4.2.0-42-generic 
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-tdfx-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-cirrus-lts-wily libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-wily 
> linux-headers-generic-lts-wily libxatracker2-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-wily xserver-xorg-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-video-trident-lts-wily libglapi-mesa-lts-wily 
> xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-wily libegl1-mesa-lts-wily 
> libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily libegl1-mesa-lts-wily 
> virtualbox-guest-utils-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-wily 
> libgles2-mesa-lts-wily virtualbox-guest-dkms-lts-wily

Thanks for testing!  Does the '--show-replacements' switch do the right
thing and want to install the i386 replacements for the packages which
you have installed?

--
Brian Murray

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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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