[Bug 1898026] Re: upgrade to 20.04 is quite invasive

[Brian Murray]

The release upgrade process is interactive and should ask you questions
during the upgrade process. Do you have any other log files in /var/log
/dist-upgrade? There may be an apt-term.log and / or a screenlog.0 file.
Both of those may help sorting out what happened.

** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  upgrade to 20.04 is quite invasive

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  As a long-time-user of ?ubuntu, with apt-get as tool of choice for updates/upgrades I wrote a daily script for updates, with 'dist-upgrade'. 
  In all earlier years, it wouldn't actually do an upgrade of a ?ubuntu version; just all packages including new ones. Version updates had to be initiated manually, and I was always asked if I really wanted the new ?ubuntu version. Sounds appropriate.

  Last night when it (dist-upgrade), it just gave me 20.04. No questions asked. I for one consider this kind of intrusive, though. 
  It *might* have to make with me trying 'sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop' a number of times earlier; just to *check* if the upgrade was on offer; but this is only a guess.

  In *any* case, a pop-up asking "Are you sure? Are you connected
  through an adequate pipe? Are you sitting with full batteries; better
  a power supply?" would be convenient; since I am using my PC for
  urgent duties, and didn't want to fiddle with unexpected upgrade bugs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Thu Oct  1 11:48:39 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-14 (566 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-09-29 (1 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
   Log time: 2020-09-29 19:44:28.696289
   Log time: 2020-09-29 19:44:33.573481

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