The 14.04 upgrade

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 May 2014 18:24, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 1 May 2014 13:08, Don Parsons <dfp10 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This not indicated by my upgrade manager.
>>>> Is it still not ready?
>>>
>>> If you are using 12.04 then you will not be notified until 14.04.1 is
>>> released in a couple of months, on the assumption that an LTS user
>>> will not want to upgrade until teething problems have been sorted out.
>>
>> And that's why the earlier suggestion was to use "-d" which is short
>> for "--devel-release".
>
> How does it know whether to get stable 14.04 or the latest development
> (daily) build?

No idea. IMO it's very silly behavior but the recommendation to use
"-d" rears its head at every LTS release.

I once filed an RFE to remove the "-d" option and therefore force
people to use "--devel-release" (and be afraid) but a moronic bug
triager said that this didn't belong on launchpad.