hwe-support-status --show-replacements shows replacements that are installed

[Brian Murray]

On a precise system I ran update-manager and choose to install the new HWE stack and then rebooted. After which I ran 'hwe-support-status --show-replacements' and saw the following:

bdmurray@clean-precise-amd64:~$ hwe-support-status
Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2017.
bdmurray@clean-precise-amd64:~$ hwe-support-status --show-replacements
linux-generic-lts-trusty linux-image-generic-lts-trusty

This seems odd to me given that the replacement packages are already installed.

bdmurray@clean-precise-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy linux-generic-lts-trusty
linux-generic-lts-trusty:
  Installed: 3.13.0.92.83
  Candidate: 3.13.0.92.83
  Version table:
 *** 3.13.0.92.83 0
        500 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

On the plus side update-manager itself doesn't mention anything about the packages being out of date, likely because hwe-support-status does not exit 10.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

--show-replacements indicates that it "show what packages need installing to be supported", so this (print installed packages) doesn't seem like desired behavior.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I removed the Trusty task since the HWE support hasn't landed there anyway, so testing that the bug exists would be impossible e.g. the version of hwe-support-status uploaded to Trusty will only have the fix.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:16.10.5

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update-manager (1:16.10.5) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py: when marking HWE packages for install pass
    on a SystemError and let the problem resolver sort it out.
  * HweSupportStatus/consts.py: Improve wording of the messages.
  * hwe-support-status:
    - decode output when checking for foreign architectures so that the result
      is unicode not bytes.
    - add libwayland-egl1-mesa to the list of metapackages.
    - utilize a virtualbox metapackage set.
    - Do not show replacements that are already installed on
      the system. (LP: #1607983)
  * source_update-manager.py: collect information about the state of HWE
    support on the system. (LP: #1617080)
  * source_update-manager.py: only collect HWE information if it exists.

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Add gi.require_version in a few more places to reduce the annoying
    warnings. (LP: #1573177)

 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:01:13 -0700

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release