The 14.04 upgrade

[Nils Kassube]

Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1 May 2014 18:24, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> And that's why the earlier suggestion was to use "-d" which is
> >> short
> >> for "--devel-release".
> > 
> > How does it know whether to get stable 14.04 or the latest
> > development (daily) build?
> 
> No idea. IMO it's very silly behavior but the recommendation to use
> "-d" rears its head at every LTS release.
> 
> I once filed an RFE to remove the "-d" option and therefore force
> people to use "--devel-release" (and be afraid) but a moronic bug
> triager said that this didn't belong on launchpad.

I think it would be better to have something like a force option which 
would look for the new LTS release even if the LTS -> LTS upgrade is not 
yet recommended. The --devel-release is a bit misleading IMHO because a) 
14.04 is released already and b) it isn't clear to most people which 
version would be targeted by the command - the released LTS version or 
even the development version coming after the LTS release.

Anyway, I suppose the release upgrader would only check for the next LST 
version because there is no "legal" way to upgrade from in this case 
12.04 to 14.10. You would always have to do the step 12.04 -> 14.04 
first.


Nils