[Bug 1875522] Re: suggest removing -d requirement to upgrade to new releases

[Heather Ellsworth]

As a user and developer, I just hit this situation and expected -d to mean devel because that's what the manpage of do-release-upgrade says. 

It would be ideal to:
* Not nag the 18.04 users to update to 20.04 until 20.04.1 release is out (this is the current behavior)
* Allow users on 18.04 (or other) to do-release-upgrade without '-d' to get to 20.04 at any point from the time 20.04 is released.

Are these two behaviors are coupled?

If there will be a period of 3 months between 20.04 and 20.04.1 where
this -d flag is needed for a non-development release and that is not
going to change, then perhaps the manpage should be updated with a
caveat.

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Title:
  suggest removing -d requirement to upgrade to new releases

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
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Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Groovy:
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Bug description:
  Hello, I'd like to suggest that the do-release-upgrade -d command line
  parameter should behave differently than it does.

  At the moment, we aren't promoting focal upgrades to our existing
  bionic and eoan users. This makes sense.

  However, we have many enthusiast users who would like to upgrade, and
  would probably be a good position to help us find and fix bugs in the
  upgrade process.

  These enthusiasts are rightly concerned that do-release-upgrade -d
  will upgrade them to gorilla. They're also wondering if 20.04 is
  actually released, etc.

  The conversations around this point on irc are endless and often.

  So: I'd like to propose that -d is used to upgrade to the devel
  release. And in the weeks or months before we change the meta-release
  files to encourage upgrades to the next release, we allow people to
  upgrade to the next release without resorting to scary-sounding
  command line options.

  Thanks

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