The theory of upgrading from 14.04 to 15.04 using /etc/apt/sources.list

[Tom H]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Simon Quigley <sqawesome99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever tried upgrading right to 15.04 by just editing
> /etc/apt/sources.list and replacing where it says trusty with vivid, then
> doing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
>
> Does it work? If it doesn't work, why?

Of course that it works!

It's best to do it in stages; but do-release-upgrade takes care of all
this for you.