[Bug 1173209] [ubuntu-release-upgrader/raring] possible regression found

[Brian Murray]

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for
Launchpad bug reports using the version of ubuntu-release-upgrader from
raring-proposed was performed and bug 1187648 was found.  Please
investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be
created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove
the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and tag 1187648 "bot-
stop-nagging". Thanks!

** Tags added: verification-failed

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Title:
  Prompted about New Release for 13.04 again after dist-upgrade and a
  restart

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” source package in Raring:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” source package in Saucy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  After upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 users are presented with a dialog indicating that 13.04 is available and to upgrade it.  This is confusing and provides a bad user experience.

  [Test Case]
  1) upgrade a system from 12.10 to 13.04 and reboot
  2) observe a message regarding 13.04 being a new release and available

  To test this with the ubuntu-release-upgrader from raring-proposed you
  will need to upgrade via the following command:

  'do-release-upgrade -f DistUpgradeViewGtk3 -p'

  The -p is necessary to ensure that you use the dist-upgrader from
  -proposed.  You can verify that you have it by check /var/log/dist-
  upgrade/main.log for version 0.192.11.

  Using the new version of the release upgrader after the release you
  should not receive a notification about 13.04 being available.

  [Regression Potential]
  Low as the release-upgrade-available file is only removed upon completion of the upgrade.

  Running ubuntu server as guest OS within virtualbox on a Windows host

  Yesterday I was greeting with the following prompt;

  "New release '13.04' available
  Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it."

  Which I successfully ran. Every reboot thereafter, however, I am
  continually prompted with the same text.

  Running "do-release-upgrade" therein returns;

  "Checking for a new Ubuntu release
  No new release found"

  Additional reports of the same issue on the ubuntu forum:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2138991

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