feisty still in the archive?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 15:57 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> 
> Perhaps we should at least keep updates to the update-manager package
> so people can upgrade out of the mess they're in...

I doubt this is possible, because such a system is just as likely
missing all kinds up other updates and cannot be upgraded without
applying them all.

What _should_ happen, however, is IMHO that
      * Update Manager should alert the user that the system is about to
        go EOL. Currently, unless you are subscribed to ubuntu-announce,
        this happens silently. Non-expert users will never know. [1]
      * If EOL is already reached, Update Manager should rewrite
        sources.list to point to
        http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/


[1] BTW: the installer could offer to subscribe the user to
ubuntu-announce

Regards
Mario