[Bug 1837899] Re: ubuntu-support-status indicates [18.10] packages still have support

[Chris Guiver]

I want to use the partition of 18.10 on dx6120 for a qa-test install of
18.04.3, so before I wipe I though I'd `sudo apt update; sudo apt full-
upgrade; ubuntu-support-status`

Support status summary of 'dx6120xu':

You have 0 packages (0.0%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 2526 packages (100.0%) that are unsupported

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

Other than now being in August; these are the results I believe I should have got from the start, and point to the bug report.  No updates were found so no changes to anything..
guiverc at dx6120xu:~$ apt-cache policy update-manager-core
update-manager-core:
  Installed: 1:18.10.10.2
  Candidate: 1:18.10.10.2
  Version table:
 *** 1:18.10.10.2 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu cosmic-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:18.10.10 500
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu cosmic/main i386 Packages

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Title:
  ubuntu-support-status indicates [18.10] packages still have support

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I would expect this Lubuntu 18.10 system to have almost no packages
  still supported, instead I get 69.2% still with support (until July
  2019)

  This is a VM  (Lubuntu 18.10 x86, used only for testing purposes)
  but I got the same results on x86 hardware, plus amd64/x86_64

  guiverc at d960-vml:~$ ubuntu-support-status
  Support status summary of 'd960-vml':

  You have 1371 packages (69.2%) supported until July 2019 (Canonical -
  9m)

  You have 5 packages (0.3%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
  You have 605 packages (30.5%) that are unsupported

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

  guiverc at d960-vml:~$ date
  Thu 25 Jul 22:01:28 AEST 2019

  guiverc at d960-vml:~$   dpkg -S /usr/bin/ubuntu-support-status
  update-manager-core: /usr/bin/ubuntu-support-status
  guiverc at d960-vml:~$   apt-cache policy update-manager-core
  update-manager-core:
    Installed: 1:18.10.10.2
    Candidate: 1:18.10.10.2
    Version table:
   *** 1:18.10.10.2 500
          500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu cosmic-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:18.10.10 500
          500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu cosmic/main i386 Packages

  I realize this is a EOL release (18.10), however that's sort of the
  point, as the system reports itself as still with support because of
  this bug.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: update-manager-core 1:18.10.10.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-25.26-generic 4.18.20
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-25-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.4
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: LXQt
  Date: Thu Jul 25 20:42:31 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-27 (301 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta i386 (20180925.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2019-07-25 (0 days ago)

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