[Bug 1752379] Re: ubuntu-support-status could more clearly define unsupported

[Nish Aravamudan]

** Description changed:

  Related to LP: #1574670, which has cleaned up the output significantly.
  
  The 'unsupported' status does not mean you won't get support at all
  (that is, please still file bugs, and possibly someone will work on it).
  Right now it reads like those packages are abandoned in Ubuntu (IMO).
  
  These are packages in universe without any teams signed up to support
  them. They are still maintained, though.
+ 
+ In general, in the tool, 'support' has a clear meaning (not currently
+ emitted):
+ 
+ 10:27 < mdeslaur> perhaps the tool should say what support means... "Security 
+                   updates and important bug fixes" or something
+ 
+ I think it would be ideal to provide either a header or footer that
+ defines support and unsupported as expressed by the tool.

** Summary changed:

- ubuntu-support-status could more clearly define unsupported
+ ubuntu-support-status could more clearly define 'support'

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Title:
  ubuntu-support-status could more clearly define 'support'

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Related to LP: #1574670, which has cleaned up the output
  significantly.

  The 'unsupported' status does not mean you won't get support at all
  (that is, please still file bugs, and possibly someone will work on
  it). Right now it reads like those packages are abandoned in Ubuntu
  (IMO).

  These are packages in universe without any teams signed up to support
  them. They are still maintained, though.

  In general, in the tool, 'support' has a clear meaning (not currently
  emitted):

  10:27 < mdeslaur> perhaps the tool should say what support means... "Security 
                    updates and important bug fixes" or something

  I think it would be ideal to provide either a header or footer that
  defines support and unsupported as expressed by the tool.

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