[Bug 1577833] Re: Support statement for packages within Ubuntu 16.04 LTS should have the 5 Y statement

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Using d-i installer for xenial, with apt-setup/proposed=true, and thus
running the installation with hw-detect 1.117ubuntu2.3, version of the
udeb verified in the d-i shell by checking /var/lib/dpkg/status file.

After the installation was completed, discover was not installed on the
system as expected. The support status is now this:

$ ubuntu-support-status 
Support status summary of 'clound02':

You have 437 packages (100.0%) supported until April 2021 (Canonical -
5y)

You have 0 packages (0.0%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 0 packages (0.0%) that are unsupported

Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more
details


** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-xenial

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Title:
  Support statement for packages within Ubuntu 16.04 LTS should have the
  5 Y statement

Status in Ubuntu Seeds:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Fix Released
Status in hw-detect package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in hw-detect source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Default install of Ubuntu server, should not install universe
  packages, specifically discover

  [Test Case]

   * Use d-i installer, to perform a server-like install

   * Check that there are no universe packages installed by default

   * Specifically check that discover package is not installed

  [Regression Potential]

   * discover appears to be a useless package which does not enable any
  extra hardware at either install, or post-boot time. Less disk space
  is used, as well as less time, and non-supported package is not
  installed unconditionally onto the target systems.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Original bug report

  We detected following information

  Manuell Installation in Standard-Mode (not Expert Mode)with following
  selection: standard system utilities, OpenSSH server, Basic Ubuntu
  server for s390-tools:

  Following information are provided by the ubuntu-support-status tool.

  Supported until January 2017 (9m):
  libpfm4 s390-tools sysconfig-hardware

  Supported until April 2019 (3y):
  discover discover-data libdiscover2

  The assumption is, the 16.04 LTS will have 5 year support for each
  package within release/main

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