Comment 6 for bug 1508565

> Can a MaaS customer still get the hwe-t kernel through manual steps if desired?

they could apt-get install it after the fact (same as for option 'b').

> What are consequences to support on hwe-u? Are they know forced up to 16.04 sooner (since hwe-u does not have lifetime of hwe-t)?

Well, no. see [1], specifically the picture at [2]. An installed system would get updates on the installed 'linux-generic-lts-<release>' kernel until August of 2016 (the release of 14.04.5). At that point, they no longer get kernel updates, but get a message that says "You should upgrade to linux-generic-lts-xeniel'. Also note, that your question really should say hwe-v. My testing showed that hwe-v would be selected if available, and we should make it availble in the released stream (as it is offiically released).

> Or anyone wanting to recreate specific certification needs to know what the point in time kernel was...

Cert has this general issue. We have no 'snapshot.ubuntu.com' (see http://snapshot.debian.org/ for reference), so there is actually no way to reproduce a point in time of ubuntu other than GA (because you can jsut disable -security and -updates to get GA only). Ie, as soon as you hit archive, you can only get updates.

  [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
  [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2BAC8-Support.A14.04.x_Ubuntu_Kernel_Support