Newest Gnome versus LTS

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 02:18:57AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> So, if you go through the required sequence of updates,
> 16.04 -> 16.10 -> 17.04 -> 17.10 -> 18.10 -> 19.04
> (as you want to skip 18.04, and, if all of those versions are still
> available, and, if that path of system upgrades is possible)

This path is unsupported and may or may not work.  (It's not uncommon to
drop special upgrade handling code in packages just after an LTS
release, on the basis that everyone is supposed to upgrade through the
LTS; so 17.10 -> 18.10 is the problematic step.)

If you have some objection to 18.04 that you believe to be fixed in
19.04, then you'd be better off going 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 19.04 (18.10 is
going EOL and will be removed from archive.ubuntu.com relatively soon if
it hasn't already, and direct 18.04 -> 19.04 should be fine).  It's not
like you'd be running 18.04 for very long in that scenario.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]