[Bug 1789850] [NEW] Advertising in the MOTD

[ktechmidas]

Public bug reported:

In a previous report you told us to report new bugs in ubuntu-motd,
however ubuntu-bug doesn't allow this.

The previous report was about marketing/promotion of Ubuntu in the MOTD,
however this report is to address new advertising in the MOTD. The MOTD
should be reserved for vulnerabilities and other fixes - instead I
logged in this morning to find the following:

"* Check out 6 great IDEs now available on Ubuntu. There may even be
   something worthwhile there for those crazy EMACS fans ;)

   - https://bit.ly/6-cool-IDEs"

Can we discuss this? This absolutely sucks because it's an advert for a
blog post that mostly has desktop IDE's and isn't even relevant for
server users *and* it's using a bit.ly link. In a previous bug report[1]
it was promised that everyone would watch what others are merging so how
did this get through??

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/+bug/1701068/comments/11

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: base-files 10.1ubuntu2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-1020.20-aws 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1020-aws x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 30 08:34:40 2018
Dependencies:
 
Ec2AMI: ami-0f7b7753aba0b7a5d
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: ap-northeast-2c
Ec2InstanceType: m5.xlarge
Ec2Kernel: unavailable
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: base-files
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: update-motd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ec2-images

** Also affects: update-motd (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Advertising in the MOTD

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in update-motd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In a previous report you told us to report new bugs in ubuntu-motd,
  however ubuntu-bug doesn't allow this.

  The previous report was about marketing/promotion of Ubuntu in the
  MOTD, however this report is to address new advertising in the MOTD.
  The MOTD should be reserved for vulnerabilities and other fixes -
  instead I logged in this morning to find the following:

  "* Check out 6 great IDEs now available on Ubuntu. There may even be
     something worthwhile there for those crazy EMACS fans ;)

     - https://bit.ly/6-cool-IDEs"

  Can we discuss this? This absolutely sucks because it's an advert for
  a blog post that mostly has desktop IDE's and isn't even relevant for
  server users *and* it's using a bit.ly link. In a previous bug
  report[1] it was promised that everyone would watch what others are
  merging so how did this get through??

  [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
  files/+bug/1701068/comments/11

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: base-files 10.1ubuntu2.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-1020.20-aws 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1020-aws x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 30 08:34:40 2018
  Dependencies:
   
  Ec2AMI: ami-0f7b7753aba0b7a5d
  Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: ap-northeast-2c
  Ec2InstanceType: m5.xlarge
  Ec2Kernel: unavailable
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=C.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: base-files
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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