** Description changed: [Impact] Trusty is about to enter ESM (Extended Security Maintenance). While a new ubuntu-advantage-tools client is in development and almost finished, we thought it best to update the existing client in the meantime, already shipped in trusty, to support ESM. - [Test Case] * Install ubuntu-advantage-tools from trusty-updates: sudo apt install ubuntu-advantage-tools * Verify that it says esm is not avaiable: $ ubuntu-advantage status livepatch: disabled esm: disabled (not available) fips: disabled (not available) * Update the client to the version in proposed and run status again. This time it should have no remark about esm being not available: $ ubuntu-advantage status livepatch: disabled esm: disabled fips: disabled (not available) - - [Regression Potential] + [Regression Potential] The existing trusty ubuntu-advantage-tools package only supports livepatch. This update is not touching that part of the code, but instead adding support for esm which was previously not available. - [Other Info] There will be a new update soon, that completely revamps the package. That will be subject to a new, different, SRU. + + Xenial is not being updated with these changes because there is no ESM + for xenial. + + Finally, I re-enabled the test suite at package build time, which had + been disabled in a previous upload.
** Description changed: [Impact] Trusty is about to enter ESM (Extended Security Maintenance). While a new ubuntu-advantage-tools client is in development and almost finished, we thought it best to update the existing client in the meantime, already shipped in trusty, to support ESM. [Test Case] * Install ubuntu-advantage-tools from trusty-updates: sudo apt install ubuntu-advantage-tools * Verify that it says esm is not avaiable: $ ubuntu-advantage status livepatch: disabled esm: disabled (not available) fips: disabled (not available) * Update the client to the version in proposed and run status again. This time it should have no remark about esm being not available: $ ubuntu-advantage status livepatch: disabled esm: disabled fips: disabled (not available) [Regression Potential] The existing trusty ubuntu-advantage-tools package only supports livepatch. This update is not touching that part of the code, but instead adding support for esm which was previously not available. [Other Info] There will be a new update soon, that completely revamps the package. That will be subject to a new, different, SRU. - Xenial is not being updated with these changes because there is no ESM - for xenial. + Xenial and later are not being updated with these changes because there + is no ESM for those releases. Finally, I re-enabled the test suite at package build time, which had been disabled in a previous upload. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server, which is subscribed to ubuntu-advantage-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1825239 Title: Enable support for trusty ESM To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/1825239/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
