[Bug 371000] [NEW] Not possible to nicely upgrade from old dist

[Roland Orre]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: upgrade-system

First I'm a computer expert and I have a PhD in computer science.
Our media computer at home (kubuntu) was running feisty, and I as was going to update the system.
Then it says things like:
Failed to fetch http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 130.239.18.173 80]

I searched the web for a reasonable way to update from feisty to jaunty but didn't find any
The only reasonable way I could do it was to edit /etc/apt/sources.list as
s/feisty/hardy/g
which is completely unacceptable, it is like Canonical would have been purchased by Microsoft just to kill it.

You should not need to be a PhD in computer science to updated your system, then even XP is better.
I have been very disappointed by debian's update path earlier, as suddenly your system is obsolete,
it should always be easy to upgrade, otherwise we are lost.

** Affects: upgrade-system (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Not possible to nicely upgrade from old dist
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371000
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