[Bug 1497024] Re: release upgrades should jump over unsupported releases

[Brian Murray]

bdmurray at blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:15.04.7.1
  Candidate: 1:15.04.7.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:15.04.7.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:15.04.7 0
        500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

bdmurray at blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ do-release-upgrade -c -d
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release '15.10' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
bdmurray at blacklightning:~/Documents/gtd$ do-release-upgrade -c
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found


** Tags added: verificationd-done-vivid

** Tags removed: verificationd-done-vivid
** Tags added: verification-done-vivid

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Title:
  release upgrades should jump over unsupported releases

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Trusty:
  Invalid
Status in update-manager source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Vivid:
  New
Status in update-manager source package in Vivid:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Test Case
  ---------
  There isn't a great test case for the Vivid update-manager change as the change will only have an effect when W is unsupported. Having said that I did add a test to update-manager which verifies the logic of the change. Additionally, it would be good to ensure an offer to upgrade to Wily is given when running 'do-release-upgrade -d'.

  Regression Potential
  --------------------
  If the patch is incorrect upgrades to the development release of Ubuntu won't be offered. There is a test for that and running 'do-release-upgrade -d' on Vivid will prove that it works.

  Currently, users of 14.04 LTS with /etc/update-manager/release-
  upgrades's prompt set to normal are offered to upgrade to the
  unsupported release 14.10. In the past when 13.04 became unsupported
  before 12.10 we offered upgrades from 12.10 to 13.10. Skipping an
  unsupported release also puts us in a better position to ensure LTS to
  LTS upgrades work. Subsequently, update-manager and ubuntu-release-
  upgrader should be modified so that users can upgrade from 14.04 to
  15.04.

  The changes to update-manager will be generic enough to work going
  forward and the ubuntu-release-upgrader changes may require regular
  updates as a release becomes End of Life.

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