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

[Brian Murray]

** Tags removed: rls-gg-incoming

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Groovy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Confirmed

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

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Groovy:
  Confirmed

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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