The 14.04 upgrade

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

I agree and almost mentioned a --force in my earlier message... :)


> 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.

That's the guardrail! Thanks for thinking it through.