Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released - HWE EOL upgrade testing?

[Erick Brunzell]

Going a bit off-topic here but I'd appreciate any interested members of 
ubuntu-release forwarding this to all interested parties. I'm in hopes 
of being allowed at least a few days (preferably a week) of testing HWE 
EOL upgrades, when they become available, before making them available 
to the general public. I opened a bug report regarding this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/+bug/1602066

I'm a devoted iso/upgrade tester but I lack the skills to figure out 
exactly how to do that. I noticed an update to 'update-manager*' in 
proposed today, so I updated the three related packages on a Trusty 
w/Utopic HWE stack, and then tried running update-manager -p and 
update-manager -d -c but only the Trusty -> Xenial upgrade is offered.

Would it be possible to create a test-case and then perform some pre-HWE 
EOL testing so we can try to avoid the mess we encountered when those 
who installed using 12.04.2, 12.04.3, and 12.04.4 media reached HWE EOL. 
My bug report includes numerous links to the type of problems we 
encountered.

Apologies for going off-topic and thanks in advance for any help you can 
provide,

Lance

On 08/04/2016 06:29 PM, Adam Conrad wrote:
> The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
> (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products,
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> We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with
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