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

[Vlad Orlov]

Ok, trying to install the listed replacements won't remove my patched
versions of libsdl2-2.0-0 and libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 anymore. Previously
they were going to be removed due to missing libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-*
is the list. Looks good so far.

I experimented a bit more, removed libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily:i386
package, then used autoremove to get rid of some packages that it
depends on (excluding the ones needed by libsdl2-2.0-0:i386).

$ hwe-support-status --show-replacements
linux-generic-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial:i386 linux-image-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial

So the replacements list got one package shorter (as expected), but
there were no issues when trying to install these packages - both 32-bit
and 64-bit libsdl2 were kept intact. I guess it's libwayland-egl1-mesa-
lts-xenial:i386 package that takes care of what's needed by libsdl2 now.

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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:
  Fix Committed
Status in update-manager source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in update-notifier source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Test Case (for update-notifier)
  -------------------------------
  1) Install an End of Life HWE stack (utopic/vivid/wily)
  2) Install the version of update-notifier and update-manager from Trusty -proposed
  3) Force an motd update via 'sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-hwe-eol'
  4) Observe a message regarding your HWE stack being End of Life.
  5) ssh localhost - confirm same HWE EoL message appears

  
  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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