Document ESM overlap period

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

[ Impact ]

 * End of standard support, End of ESM, New interim release, Religious holidays currently coincide in the same week of April in odd years. In practice, security updates continue to be published into security pocket during May, with esm token strictly required from June. Document the current status quo in the disto-info-data to avoid any panic or confusion during odd years May month. Please ensure that ESM tokens are enrolled on your LTS systems in May to ensure security updates are received from June onwards.

[ Test Plan ]

 * ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic

 * ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal

 * ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * This is csv data update only.

[ Other Info ]

 * Anything else you think is useful to include
 * Anticipate questions from users, SRU, +1 maintenance, security teams and the Technical Board
 * and address these questions in advance

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/distro-info-data/-/merge_requests/6

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/distro-info-data/-/merge_requests/6 has feedback waiting for the response.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package distro-info-data - 0.57

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distro-info-data (0.57) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Document Ubuntu ESM overlap period (LP: #2003949)

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * Tighten validate-csv-data heuristics, to limit Ubuntu EoLs to Tue-Thursday
  * Correct error message for EoL date weekdays
  * Ensure Ubuntu LTS releases have some overlap with ESM
  * Correct exit code for EoL date weekdays

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Format Python code with black
  * Some refactoring in validate-csv-data for better readability
  * Update year in debian/copyright
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.2

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:45:05 +0100

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Please provide a reference to the source of this change to the support periods.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

> Please provide a reference to the source of this change to the support periods.

it's private.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

If it's private, then how is anyone supposed to confirm the date is correct? distro-info-data should be a mirror of this product information, not the authoritative source.

[Lech Sandecki (lsandecki)]

Hi team,
Per our agreement last year, I publicly communicated that 18.04 would be out of standard support on 31 May 2023.

see
https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted distro-info-data into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-info-data/0.54ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted distro-info-data into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-info-data/0.52ubuntu0.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted distro-info-data into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-info-data/0.43ubuntu1.12 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted distro-info-data into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-info-data/0.37ubuntu0.16 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted distro-info-data (0.52ubuntu0.3) for jammy have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

update-manager/1:22.04.10 (amd64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/jammy/update_excuses.html#distro-info-data

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.37ubuntu0.15
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
#

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.37ubuntu0.16
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
jammy

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.43ubuntu1.11
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
#

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.43ubuntu1.12
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
jammy

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.52ubuntu0.2

# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
#

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.52ubuntu0.3
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
jammy

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.54ubuntu0.1

# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
#

# dpkg-query -W distro-info-data
distro-info-data 0.54ubuntu0.2
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2023-05-20 | grep bionic
bionic
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2025-05-20 | grep focal
focal
# ubuntu-distro-info --supported --date=2027-05-20 | grep jammy
jammy

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package distro-info-data - 0.54ubuntu0.2

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distro-info-data (0.54ubuntu0.2) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Document Ubuntu ESM overlap period (LP: #2003949)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 10:55:08 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for distro-info-data has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package distro-info-data - 0.52ubuntu0.3

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distro-info-data (0.52ubuntu0.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Publish only main branch to GitLab Pages

  [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
  * Document Ubuntu ESM overlap period (LP: #2003949)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:05:22 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package distro-info-data - 0.43ubuntu1.12

---------------
distro-info-data (0.43ubuntu1.12) focal; urgency=medium

  * Document Ubuntu ESM overlap period (LP: #2003949)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:10:01 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package distro-info-data - 0.37ubuntu0.16

---------------
distro-info-data (0.37ubuntu0.16) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Document Ubuntu ESM overlap period (LP: #2003949)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:18:45 +0000