[Bug 1173570] [NEW] For each release, always create all dists in repo, even when empty

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People can upgrade by altering their /etc/apt/sources.list file. They
typically rename e.g. quantal to raring and do an apt-get dist-upgrade.

With the release of 13.04, not all dists have been created in the repo.
See http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/

which has:
[DIR]	quantal-backports/	26-Apr-2012 18:44 	- 	 
[DIR]	quantal-proposed/	26-Apr-2012 18:44 	- 	 
[DIR]	quantal-security/	26-Apr-2012 18:44 	- 	 
[DIR]	quantal-updates/	26-Apr-2012 18:44 	- 	 
[DIR]	quantal/	26-Apr-2012 18:44 	- 	 
but for raring ans saucy it has:
[DIR]	raring-proposed/	01-Feb-2013 20:53 	- 	 
[DIR]	raring/	23-Oct-2012 11:23 	- 	 
[DIR]	saucy-proposed/	26-Apr-2013 09:35 	- 	 
[DIR]	saucy/	26-Apr-2013 11:35 	-

This means that if people use raring, they have to comment out updates,
security and backports in sources.list and monitor manually when these
are available and enable these by uncommenting. Otherwise apt-get
upgrade is complaining about it.

This is a far from ideal situation since these mechanism are there to
automate upgrades flawlessly. Please fix this by creating (even if
empty) dists for updates, security and backports for any Ubuntu release
before it is official. (So please do that for raring and already for
saucy). Errors from apt-get update are:

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-
updates/partner/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191
80]

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/raring-
updates/partner/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191
80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: 13.04 13.10 apt bot-comment release-upgrade updates
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For each release, always create all dists in repo, even when empty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173570
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