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

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Braiam,

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:40:16PM -0400, Braiam Miguel Peguero Novo wrote:

> In askubuntu chat we noticed certain oddity in the support releases,
> Quantal will be still supported while Raring isn't, hence people using
> Quantal that wants to upgrade to Raring can (Murphy's law say will)
> get some troubles and some more users will get confused. How this
> distortion will play out for the release team (and users)?

This question came up a while ago on Ask Ubuntu, and Jorge asked me to help
respond to it:

  http://askubuntu.com/questions/368068/how-will-people-upgrade-from-12-10-to-14-04-after-13-04-is-eol/368099

I've just tuned the answer there to make it clearer that this method *will*
be used and supported for upgrades from 12.10.

As Brian mentions, we can't really go straight from 12.10 to 14.04 because
13.04 goes EOL in January, and upgrades to 14.04 are only supported starting
in April - so while users of 12.10 will have security support until April,
they would also be completely unable to upgrade through the UI from January
until April and we don't want any remaining 12.10 users to have to scramble
to upgrade the very day that 14.04 is released.  So instead the supported
upgrade path will be 12.10->13.10->14.04, starting from January.

Hope that helps,
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