Early release upgrade notifications

[Scott Kitterman]

We've had several reports from Kubuntu 12.10 users of them being notified a new 
release is available and having the upgrade to 13.04 offerred to them.  It 
seems quite intermittent as only a small fraction of users seem to have the 
problems.

Kubuntu uses the same MetaReleaseCore from python3-update-manager as is used 
in Ubuntu, so I don't believe that whatever is behind this issue is Kubuntu 
unique.  Has anyone else seen this?  Suggestions on how to trouble shoot it?

Thanks,

Scott K

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Subject: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Latest release
Date: Saturday, February 09, 2013, 02:25:23 PM
From: James Cain <james.cain.25 at gmail.com>
To: Kubuntu Developer Discussion <kubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>

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From: Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com>
Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Fwd: Latest release
To: james.cain.25 at gmail.com


On 09/02/13 00:29, James Cain wrote:

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> Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 PM
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> On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 08:24:41 PM James Cain wrote:
>  > FYI...Any insights?
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>  > From: Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com
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>  > Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:51 PM
>  > Subject: Latest release
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>  >
>  > Daft question, but am I under attack? I've just logged in and been
> offered
>  > 13.04 and it's obviously not April. As this is a new machine I have no
>  > qualms about accepting the invitation - it can always be scrubbed back
> to
>  > iron -but I am intrigued by what appears to be a genuinely new version
> of
>  > Kubuntu. Can anyone clarify what is going on?
>  >
>  > Peter HB
>
> Whatever happened, it's not general as I haven't gotten offered that on a
> quantal system.  There is not anything intended to happen.  Given the
> way the
> new release detector works, I'm quite surprised.
>
> It would be good to know what's in /etc/update-manager/release-**upgrades
> and
> meta-release.
>
> Scott K
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>  James & Scott,

many thanks for your interest in my un-expected upgrade to 13.04. FYI I'm
pasting below the contents of /etc/update-manager/release-**upgrades

# Default behavior for the release upgrader.

[DEFAULT]
# Default prompting behavior, valid options:
#
#  never  - Never check for a new release.
#  normal - Check to see if a new release is available.  If more than one
new
#           release is found, the release upgrader will attempt to upgrade
to
#           the release that immediately succeeds the currently-running
#           release.
#  lts    - Check to see if a new LTS release is available.  The upgrader
#           will attempt to upgrade to the first LTS release available after
#           the currently-running one.  Note that this option should not be
#           used if the currently-running release is not itself an LTS
#           release, since in that case the upgrader won't be able to
#           determine if a newer release is available.
Prompt=normal

and meta-release.

# default location for the meta-release file

[METARELEASE]
URI = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/**meta-
release<http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release>
URI_LTS = http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/**meta-release-
lts<http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts>
URI_UNSTABLE_POSTFIX = -development
URI_PROPOSED_POSTFIX = -proposed

For what it is worth I'm running a fresh install of Kubuntu on an Intel
based laptop with EFI. Interestingly I'm also running Kubuntu on a couple
of desktops based on AMD-64 processors and standard BIOS and I have *not*
been offered the upgrade. The 2 files you requested appear identical on the
desktop machines with those on the laptop.

If any other information would help, please just ask.

Peter HB



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