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[Steve Magoun <1244438@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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.

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