On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:03 AM Holger Levsen wrote: > Yesterday I was helping a friend who's computer since some time > didn't receive updates anymore, the reason was easily found, it > was running wheezy :) > > That friend had no idea that the release they were running was > not supported anymore and I wonder if we do have a mechanism to > signal that to users. (In a more friendly way than 404 http error > codes.)
I seem to remember that Ubuntu might have a solution for this and I found these resources: There is something called ubuntu-support-status from the update-manager package, but it seems to be a command-line tool: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOL#Related Ubuntu's hardware support backports have EOL notifications that seem to be part of the update-notifier package: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HweStackEolNotifications I also found that Fedora have upgrade notifications and an upgrade process in GNOME Software: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
