Comment 7 for bug 2002216

Although the oem meta packages have been around now for some time, I am coming across this as I believe the first one I have ever reviewed as an SRU Team member / Archive Admin.

And I find that the expectations here are under-documented.

Why is this package uploaded to the NEW queue only in the last LTS, and not to the devel series?

If a user gets such a metapackage installed in an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS install, and then they choose to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04, which we support; or to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS when it is released; what is supposed to happen?

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2020-January/002478.html is referenced by one of the wiki pages, and contains the text:

> Also, eventually, the certified oem metapackages will wean certified
> machines off the oem kernel flavour onto the hwe/generic flavours when
> those incorporate all the needed delta for a given SKU.

However, if these metapackages do not exist in later releases, there seems to be no way at all for this to happen. So what provisions are there in place to see that this does happen?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OEMArchive says that the oem package archives are located at http://oem.archive.canonical.com/dists/. oem-sutton-abishag-meta points to lenovo.archive.canonical.com. Why is this different?