Nicolas Barcet Free zone of nijaba

I have been working on a script that provides a list of packages that are installed on a machine and reports its maintenance status.
It is not yet completely tested, but I guess you could help me find if there is something wrong with it.

usage: maintenance-check [-f] [release [release...]]

release              Specifies the release to parse from.
                        Defaults to the system release
-f, --filter value  possible values are:
                        n - not officially maintained
                        u - ubuntu desktop
                        k - kubuntu desktop
                        s - ubuntu server

Known issues:

• For releases prior to Hardy, I have yet to modify the seed structure so that I can distinguish between what's not shipped on cd but supported and what's not supported at all, so some packages may show as unsupported while they should.
• Due to the way kernels are updated, the updated kernel packages are shown as unsupported while they of course are.

Let me know if it helps and if you find issues with it.

The script can now be found in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-maintenance-check