Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS released - HWE EOL upgrade testing?

[Brian Murray]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 08:38:40PM -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for you interest in testing these features.  Running
update-manager with those switches is used for a release upgrade from
one release to another.  Just running update-manager, without any
switches, under the right conditions would warn you about your HWE stack
being out of date and offer an option to install a new HWE stack.

> 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.

I've added information regarding how to test HWE support in
update-manager to that bug you opened.

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Brian Murray
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