Products or product components may have different lifecycle or support status

[celan]

Certain product modules are put into other products that have a different lifecycle and/or support status. If you buy a hard drive it may have a 2 year warranty, but if it is part of a business workstation that could be longer.

[crazyscientist]

Actual use case from #28:

We've got sets of packages which have a shorter lifetime than the product where they are included. Examples below. The indication of a shorter package lifecycle is handled in the zypper lifecycle plugin and authoritative data is packaged in lifecycle-data- packages. It would be cool if aimaas could serve as the central storage of lifecycle data from which scripts would generate both the lifecycle-data- packages and the info web pages.

Examples:

• All packages at https://scc.suse.com/docs/lifecycle/sle/12/modules
• Live Patching https://www.suse.com/products/live-patching/current-patches (out of service now, data come from company internal Git repo)

References:

• FATE#320597: Introduce 'zypper lifecycle' to provide information about life cycle of individual products and packages (link to a company internal archive)