[Bug 1727751] Re: ubuntu-distro-info shows bionic as "latest development" and "supported stable version" at the same time

[Brian Murray]

The information actually comes from the distro-info-data package, not
distro-info. What version of distro-info-data do you have installed?

Get:1 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu artful-updates/main amd64 distro-info-data all 0.36ubuntu0.2 [4418 B]
Get:2 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu artful/main amd64 distro-info amd64 0.17 [20.3 kB]
Fetched 24.7 kB in 0s (112 kB/s)      
Selecting previously unselected package distro-info-data.
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Preparing to unpack .../distro-info-data_0.36ubuntu0.2_all.deb ...
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Preparing to unpack .../distro-info_0.17_amd64.deb ...
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Setting up distro-info-data (0.36ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up distro-info (0.17) ...
(artful-amd64)root at impulse:/home/bdmurray/source-trees/daisy/trunk# ubuntu-distro-info --devel 
cosmic
(artful-amd64)root at impulse:/home/bdmurray/source-trees/daisy/trunk# ubuntu-distro-info --devel -f
Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish"


** Package changed: distro-info (Ubuntu) => distro-info-data (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: distro-info-data (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  ubuntu-distro-info shows bionic as "latest development" and "supported
  stable version" at the same time

Status in distro-info-data package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  bionic should not be listed up as "supported stable versions"?

  $ apt policy distro-info
  distro-info:
    Installed: 0.17
    Candidate: 0.17
    Version table:
   *** 0.17 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  $ date +%F
  2017-10-26

  $ grep bionic /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv
  18.04 LTS,Bionic Beaver,bionic,2017-10-19,2018-04-26,2023-04-26

  
  $ ubuntu-distro-info -h
  ...
    -d  --devel            latest development version

        --supported        list of all supported stable versions
  ...

  
  $ ubuntu-distro-info --devel -f
  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver"

  $ ubuntu-distro-info --supported -f
  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr"
  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"
  Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus"
  Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark"
  Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver"

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