[Bug 1939457] Re: Update EoL dates for 16.04 LTS and 21.04 so they are not on weekends

[Brian Murray]

While I agree with the idea that we should copy the latest back I don't
think its worth spending the extra effort on this time for two reasons.

1) The changes are for dates which have already passed the most recent of which is 2020-01-18.
2) The packages need to be built in a PPA w/ -security and not -updates which is not as trivial as just re-uploading the package to the queue.

Additionally, adding new releases (e.g. Impish) has always been a
cherry-pick. How about we update the new release process document to
indicate that ubuntu.csv should be copied from the development release
so that things end up being consistent?

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Title:
  Update EoL dates for 16.04 LTS and 21.04 so they are not on weekends

Status in distro-info-data package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in distro-info-data source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in distro-info-data source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in distro-info-data source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in distro-info-data source package in Hirsute:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  $ grep "xenial\|hirsute" /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv
  16.04 LTS,Xenial Xerus,xenial,2015-10-22,2016-04-21,2021-04-21,2021-04-21,2024-04-21
  21.04,Hirsute Hippo,hirsute,2020-10-22,2021-04-22,2022-01-22

  2024-04-21 and 2022-01-22 are both weekend days which historically
  isn't when a release is moved to an EoL status. The dates have been
  changed in Impish (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/543975614/distro-
  info-data_0.48_0.49.diff.gz) to weekdays and those changes should be
  SRU'ed to stable releases so users can better plan.

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