Canonical's OEM preinstall team would like to have a way to control the timing of the update. One way to do this is to provide a way to opt-out of the default upgrade notification, such as by dropping a file on disk via a software update delivered only to those OEM preinstall machines (we have a way to do this already). The second part of the request is a way to opt in/trigger the notification to the end user.
The reason is that Canonical in conjunction with OEMs will do upgrade tests on preloaded hardware to ensure that end users with this hardware have a smooth upgrade path to the next LTS kernel. We'd like to delay the upgrade notifications until those upgrades are tested. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244438 Title: EOL notification system required for HWE kernels in LTSs Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: New Status in “landscape” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “update-motd” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: We need to have some mechanism to allow us to record that you have an EOL kernel installed which will no longer recieve updates. For example for the kernel when a kernel is going EOL the last upload should include an appropriate file: /var/lib/update-notifier/kernel-eol We need to coordinate this with the notifier itself to ensure it is displayed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/1244438/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
