alpha > beta> to LTS

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 19:07 -0400, steve wrote:
> I was under the impression hardy alpha and beta releases would
> eventually turn into LTS if I just kept running the update manager. 

This is correct.

> {...]As of today, I have no updates
> available, and /boot/grub/menu.lst still shows development branch as
> seen below...any idea why? 

Dunno, I tracked Hardy since before the Alpha releases and I have:

## ## End Default Options ##
title           Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic

What is the contents of /etc/lsb-release ?

>  (I have already run update-manager -d,
> nothing shows as available)

That's normal. the "-d" switch is needed to tell update-manager to try
and upgrade to a not-yet-released new version, e.g., from 7.10 to 8.04
alpha/beta.  Currently there is, however, no in-development version
8.10.

(From the man page of update-manager:
-d, --devel-release
      Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible)


Within the 8.04 branch, the daily updates from pre-alpha up to final
release (and any updates that come after release, e.g., security fixes)
are just "normal" upgrades that don't need the "-d" switch.