[Bug 2146830] Re: [SRU] kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade erroneously calls "-m"

[Erich Eickmeyer]

$ apt-cache policy ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt 
ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt:
  Installed: 1:25.10.9
  Candidate: 1:25.10.9
  Version table:
 *** 1:25.10.9 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu questing/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Launches the Qt frontend.

Only issue I'm seeing now is that the Qt frontend is popping-up a black
screen, but this is a different issue I will be investigating, but the
aforementioned error (no such option: -m) is gone. If any other fixes
need to happen, I'll make a separate report, but they're not regressions
of this.

Unrelated: I have no idea why noble was added as a tag.

** Tags removed: noble verification-needed-questing
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-questing

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Title:
  [SRU] kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade erroneously calls "-m"

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Questing:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Resolute:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Testing Kubuntu or Ubuntu Studio upgrades is done in a wrapper script
  called kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade. Currently, if a developer wishes
  to upgrade Questing to Resolute in a test, they are unable.

  -m was deprected in plucky. It was removed, but not from questing and,
  therefore, is bugged there.

  [Test Case]

  From a terminal in Ubuntu Studio or Kubuntu 25.10, run:

  kubuntu-devel-release-upgrade

  Expected: pkexec prompt and subsequent KDE frontend for the release
  upgrader.

  Actual: do-release-upgrade: error: no such option: -m

  [What could go wrong]

  There could be typo in the MP, but I doubt it. The solution is simply
  to remove `-m desktop` from the command line, which appears to be done
  in the code, but it was never released.

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