[Bug 241431] Re: edgy to feisty upgrades fail due to use of old-releases

[Rolf Leggewie]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  edgy to feisty upgrades fail due to use of old-releases

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “update-manager” source package in Feisty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “update-manager” source package in Gutsy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “update-manager” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “update-manager” source package in Intrepid:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Now that edgy is on old-releases, do-release-upgrade fails because it
  doesn't know how to cope with the situation.  It considers old-
  releases a foreign mirror, giving you the option to quit, or to just
  s/edgy/feisty/ which, of course, won't work because feisty is
  (currently) hosted on archive.ubuntu.com.

  The workaround for this is, when asked if you want to s/edgy/feisty/,
  hit another terminal, rewrite sources.list to use archive.ubuntu.com,
  and then say "yes, sure, use my custom mirror!", but this is clearly
  not ideal.

  Either the release-upgrader needs a table of release->mirror mappings
  (not ideal, as it would require new uploads to every old dist as we
  archive releases), or a quick-n-dirty http prober that can check if a
  release lives on old-releases or archive, before mangling sources.list
  (this should future-proof feisty being archived to old-releases).  On
  top of that, of course, old-releases needs to be considered a valid
  official mirror, not a custom mirror.

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