Quantal -> Raring -> Saucy upgrade path, how?

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 09:15:07AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Adam Conrad [2013-12-11  1:06 -0700]:
> > We should also be working on making sure that Q-T (bypassing R and S)
> > upgrade paths work, and be pushing users (via update-manager hints)
> > toward that direction.
> 
> That's in fact what we discsussed in the upgrade testing UDS session.
> We need to make the five times more complicated [1] P → T upgrade work
> anyway, this should almost automatically provide a working Q → T path
> (we'll explicitly test this as well, of course).

Actually, after some discussion last Friday[1] it was decided to make the
upgrade path be from Q to S, as otherwise Q users would be stuck on Q
until April of 2014.

I've worked on this a bit and it is being tracked in
http://launchpad.net/bugs/1258639.  If somebody could look at the
update-manager SRU that'd be great.

[1] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/12/06/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t18:12

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Brian Murray