[Bug 1808038] Re: ubuntu-distro-info should include information about ESM status

[Brian Murray]

** Description changed:

- ubuntu-distro-info is an important source of information about the
- current support state of the various Ubuntu releases.  Currently,
- however, it provides no information about the status of Extended
- Security Maintenance for Ubuntu releases, which is an important aspect
- of Ubuntu "support".
+ [Impact]
+ ubuntu-distro-info is an important source of information about the current support state of the various Ubuntu releases.  Currently, however, it provides no information about the status of Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu releases, which is an important aspect of Ubuntu "support".
  
- (If we already had concrete ESM information in this package, it could
- have served to clear up the recent confusion about bionic's "10 years of
- support".)
+ [Test Case]
+ 1) Run ubuntu-distro-info --help and observer there is no mention of ESM
+ 
+ With the version from -proposed there will be a switch to filter on ESM
+ supported releases e.g. 'ubuntu-distro-info --supported-esm' and it'll
+ be possible to show the number of days until the end of ESM ('ubuntu-
+ distro-info --days=eol-esm --supported-esm -f). So the test case is
+ really to make sure that those new filters work.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ If the relationship between the packages isn't right then they will not be upgraded together and we could end up in a situation where distro-info is unusable because it doesn't recognize the number of columns in ubuntu.csv. So try and only upgrade distro-info-data and if that works then there will be a regression which is bad!
+ 
+ [Original Description or some portion of it]
+ (If we already had concrete ESM information in this package, it could have served to clear up the recent confusion about bionic's "10 years of support".)

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Title:
  ubuntu-distro-info should include information about ESM status

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

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  ubuntu-distro-info is an important source of information about the current support state of the various Ubuntu releases.  Currently, however, it provides no information about the status of Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu releases, which is an important aspect of Ubuntu "support".

  [Test Case]
  1) Run ubuntu-distro-info --help and observer there is no mention of ESM

  With the version from -proposed there will be a switch to filter on
  ESM supported releases e.g. 'ubuntu-distro-info --supported-esm' and
  it'll be possible to show the number of days until the end of ESM
  ('ubuntu-distro-info --days=eol-esm --supported-esm -f). So the test
  case is really to make sure that those new filters work.

  [Regression Potential]
  If the relationship between the packages isn't right then they will not be upgraded together and we could end up in a situation where distro-info is unusable because it doesn't recognize the number of columns in ubuntu.csv. So try and only upgrade distro-info-data and if that works then there will be a regression which is bad!

  [Original Description or some portion of it]
  (If we already had concrete ESM information in this package, it could have served to clear up the recent confusion about bionic's "10 years of support".)

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